Cordero-Cruz, Wildredo R.

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    Bus stop consolidation analysis for Puerto Rico's Metropolitan Bus Authority
    (2015) Cordero-Cruz, Wildredo R.; Cruzado-Vélez, Ivette; College of Engineering; Valdés Díaz, Didier; Colucci Ríos, Benjamín; Department of Civil Engineering; Toledo Feria, Freya
    The transit planning in the Metropolitan Area of San Juan in Puerto Rico has a challenging problem because of its low sponsorship. Several reasons for the lack of sponsorship discussed among the community are urban sprawl, excess of incentives for private transportation, easy acquisition of a vehicle, relative low prices of gas fuel, and laws and policies that prioritize the use of personal vehicles, among others. The Metropolitan Bus Authority (MBA) of Puerto Rico is aware of these challenges and has been identifying all the inefficiencies that could foster a low sponsorship of the transit system. The results of a study performed in 2014 by graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez describe the actual condition and accessibility of many of the MBA bus stops and compliance of the sidewalks and shelters within American with Disabilities Act requirements. The observations and preliminary conclusions of the study indicate that the location of bus stops in many places shows little or none ridership which could be due to a possible inefficient placement. To attend that problem, two methodologies were developed in order to identify which bus stops could be consolidated or eliminated from the Route 5 of the MBA. The first methodology analyzes the benefit and cost of removing a bus stop by calculating a benefit-cost ratio for every bus stop. The second methodology consisted of a four-step process where the main purpose is to give a class (i.e. importance) from A to F to each of the stops, A being the more important and F the least important. Preliminarily, the benefit-cost ratio and the four-step process methods recommended 32 and 20 bus stops to be removed, respectively. Both methods are easy to implement and can be considered as a low cost solution for the MBA.