New Research Identifies a Decision-Making Framework for Public Microtransit Service Areas

Research on public microtransit service areas by former NCSG TRPG Director Dr. Sevgi Erdoğan and current NCSG PhD student Alibi Shokputov was recently published in the Transportation Research Record by the Transportation Research Board. Coauthors include UMD’s Dr. Amir Nohekhan and Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi. The article, titled “Multi-Criteria Decision Making Framework for Determining Public Microtransit Service Zones,” studies Prince George’s County in Maryland.

The paper addresses a critical research gap in the literature by focusing on the identification of service areas for microtransit. It presents a framework for identifying areas that would have a higher potential for success. The primary objective is to assist agencies in their efforts to provide microtransit services by offering a robust and flexible decision-making framework.