Developing A Method for Equity Measurement in Transit Systems

This paper describes the development of methods of calculating the amount of equity in the ‎distribution of public services in the cities. For this purpose, a combination of access and ‎mobility, the Connectivity Power as the primary benefit of the public transportation system ‎introduced for citizen. Vertical equity approach was selected as the approach. The number of ‎people without personal car was considered as an indicator of the need for public ‎transportation services were considered. The state of public transport facilities are distributed ‎according to the needs of residents of each area in the three-year base period (there are regular ‎bus lines corresponding to the condition of 5 years), the current year (the current situation of ‎the city bus system, a BRT line and stations active in a part of the Metro Line 1) and the ‎future (5 years, completed BRT projects and full exploitation of subway line 1) deals. The ‎urban areas in terms of providing power connection as well as the needs were arranged and ‎the two lists for each period were compared. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to ‎measure the status of each area and the Gini coefficient to measure the overall situation of the ‎city were used. The results show that although the situation is better than the base year, the ‎situation is fairly significant distance. Extremist complete bus lines and subway line 1 a ‎significant improvement in terms of the balance of supply and demand situation will not ‎improve but the Gini coefficient. The priority areas were identified for development services.‎