Abstract
Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 17 inter-related goals adopted by the United Nations for a better and sustainable future for all. These goals aim to improve the standard of living broadly through better education, environmental consciousness, poverty reduction, equality, good health and sustainable cities and communities. There is a need to provide access to quality education through provision of transportation systems to help students reach the schools comfortably. Previous researches give evidence that commute to school affects the overall efficiency at school. Also, transportation is one of the significant contributors to air pollution, a key concern in metropolitan cities. Promotion of public transport is one of the effective measures to combat pollution and make transport sustainable. School-related transportation, an underexplored aspect in developing countries, holds a significant share of transportation-related pollution and congestion. The overall aim of this work is to design a sustainable school bus transportation system by integrating the views of experts, bus users and non-bus users through a two-step implementable improvement framework. In the first step, we rank the service attributes using the fuzzy best-worst method. The second step deals with the analysis of commuter (bus and non-bus users) perceptions by means of statistical tools such as logistic regression and non-parametric tests. Later, we combine these to formulate an integrated school transportation policy. The framework is empirically tested on parents of bus users and non-bus users of a school who represent various parts of Delhi, India. The results are encouraging and indicate good amount of savings in distance travelled by personal vehicles if non-bus users shift to school buses. The framework can be replicated by schools to improve their bus services and attract non-bus users to school buses.
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