Efficiency Evaluation of Urban Transit Terminals Based on the Cloud Model

The urban transit terminal plays a significant role in urban transportation system for passenger distribution and transfer. Transfer efficiency is regarded as a key factor of urban transit terminal operational performance which reflects level of service. Thus, efficiency evaluation of urban transit terminal is important to measure the level of service improvement. First, influence factors of terminal transfer efficiency are analyzed and the corresponding evaluation index system is proposed. Then, based on the cloud model, a comprehensive evaluation model for the transfer efficiency of urban transit terminal is investigated. In this evaluation model, fuzzy and random qualitative concepts are integrated; uncertainty expressions are mapped to different cloud particles; variations of the weight are mapped to mathematical expectation of clouds; and the efficiency of urban transit terminal transfer is evaluated synthetically. Finally, an applicative example is used to show that the evaluation model is efficient and effective.