Following this certain policy measures, aimed at increasing the modal share of public transport in the total
trips, were tested using the developed fuzzy logic model. The inferences that can be drawn from such tests are
summarized below:-
By increasing the frequency of buses on the network, more commuters are found to switch over to
public transport thereby reducing private mode share in the total number of trips.
It can be seen that improvement in comfort condition of buses will result in a larger modal share of
buses only if there is no consequent increase in travel cost. In fact an increase in travel cost, even
with an increase in the comfort condition of buses, would cause a decrease in the share of public
transport. Thus the policy makers will have to find low cost solutions to increasing the comfort
conditions in the buses.