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A Framework to Identify the Appropriate Location of Bus Stops: The Case of Jeddah City
Aziz, Ghaliya Zaneb
Aziz, Ghaliya Zaneb
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has a city-wide traffic congestion problem, largely as a result of the 1947 oil boom (Freitag, 2020). Up to 25% of Saudi Arabia’s greenhouse gas emissions are produced by cars (Climate Transparency, 2022). This highlights the need for sustainable transportation solutions. The objective of this research is to develop a framework for strategically placing bus stops, crucial entry points to any bus service (Transportation Research Board, 2020). This aim of the framework is to aid urban officials in optimizing bus stop locations. To do this, principles were extracted from the literature. Then, quantitative data was collected from the Jeddah public and urban experts to assign relative weights to the principles based on Jeddah's context. The result was a checklist of principles for urban officials to follow for optimizing bus stop allocation for efficiency and sustainability.