Zone-based Fare Integration for Public Transport in the Case of Addis Ababa City
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The most important technique to establish an efficient and modernized public transportation
system is to conduct studies on it. In terms of economic and social growth, public
transportation is essential. Furthermore, providing integrated fare systems is critical for
creating effective public transportation that enables the pursuit of objectives such as
maximization of demand, maximization of revenue, profit, and social welfare. The goal of this
research is to propose a fare integration system of public transportation using a zone-based
fare structure in the case of Addis Ababa city.
The study reviewed the current fare system, identify economic and social problems due to the
lack of a fare integration system, examined the best zone partition and zone-based fare setting
approaches, and proposed, identified, and verified the main benefits of the applying zoneĀ
based fare integration system of public transportation such as maximization of revenue,
maximization of profit, reduction of fare, and minimization of passengers waiting time. In
order to create the fare integration system, the zone is partitioned analytically using the value
of the weighted mean travel distance of the ride in a city and the K-means clustering algorithm
is employed to model the segmented zone and the zone-based fare also determined based on
the principle distance- based expense.
Accordingly, the new proposed system for users' 16.66% reduction of fares, 32.33%
minimization of passengers waiting time and for operators' maximization of revenue by
31.52% and maximization of profit by 75.77% against the existing system. And the result
clarified using a numerical explanation with a graph.
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Fare integration system, public transport, zone-based fare, Ksmeans clustering algorithm