6. TRANSPORT POLICIES
6.1. Improvement of frequency of buses
By improving frequency of buses on the network, the waiting time for buses by passengers is expected to reduce
and more passengers are expected to commute by buses thereby reducing private transport share on the network.
The objective here was to test the effect of increase in the frequency of buses in such a manner that the outvehicle
travel time was reduced by 50%. Thus, keeping other parameters as the same as existing, new input was
given into the developed fuzzy logic model to estimate new modal split. The resultant modal shares both before
and after applications of the policy are shown in Fig. 5.
From Fig. 5, it can be observed that the share of buses has increased from 46% to 51% after application of policy.
In addition, there is decrease in car share from 7% to 5% and auto share from 8% to 6% after application of
policy. Thus the increase in bus share and decrease in car share implies that with increase in bus frequency, more
people would be attracted to buses and would shift from private mode