Research on Performance Evaluation of Urban Rail Transit Based on DEA

With the rapid increase people and traffic congestion in metropolis, it is more urgent and important to construct rail transit. This paper selects three input indicators and three output indicators, and the DEA is used to evaluate the rail transit performance for 51 cities. The result shows that Shanghai is validity, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are weak validity, and the other 48 cities are invalidity. Then it is studies that six factors affect passenger volume and operating mileage from supply and demand. This paper finds that passenger number is positively correlated with lines’ network, resident population, the number of civil motor vehicles, and traffic congestion. Operating mileage is positively correlated with GDP and local fiscal revenue. This paper suggests that cities increase the line network scale, first build the subway in center city, and then construct rail transit in suburban. Metropolis need to add train frequency at peak departure, prolong the peak time, postpone the last train, connect seamless from rail to bus, and place shared bicycles at the entrance of the subway.