Method for determining buses` efficiency based on an integrated assessment of the technical and commercial performance
The article presents a method of determining the efficiency of buses based on an integrated assessment of the technical and commercial performance of buses. This method allows objectively comparing indicators of technical and commercial operation of buses that are not comparable in their quantitative and qualitative values on the basis of analytical models of vector optimization. In order to solve the problem, there was used a graph-analytic method for searching for a set of effective plans for a linear programming problem task with one restrictive condition and three efficiency criteria. Calculations using the Wald, Laplace, Savage, and Hurwitz criteria were performed as well. The results of approbation show the reliability of calculations by the developed mathematical model. The advantages of the developed analytical model for determining the efficiency of buses are demonstrated in comparison with the well-known and proven methods for solving multi-criteria problems.