TY - GEN
T1 - Sustainable Transportation in Qatar
AU - Al Mamun, Abdullah
AU - Abouzeid, Abdelrahman
AU - Al-Yafei, Hussein
AU - Hussain, Shahbaz
AU - Ahmad, Ahmad Mohammad
AU - Aseel, Saleh
AU - Kucukvar, Murat
AU - Onat, Nuri C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/4/23
Y1 - 2021/4/23
N2 - Qatar has initiated a vast megaproject including an integrated transportation service. To meet the need for ongoing demand, the Government of the country instigated the bus and taxi service under the KARWA banner. The study aims to evince the sustainability of the KARWA service. In terms of acceptance, it is evident that those different modes of transportation have two different scenarios. Therefore, the study evaluated the sustainability of bus which is comparatively lower acceptance in terms of public acceptance. It is observed that public acceptance could be regulated following different aspects such as time reliability, safety, comfort, and privacy, etc. On the other hand, the taxi service is evaluated following the technological aspect. For KARWA Taxi, three-car technologies have been compared, which were Conventional Internal Combustion Engine, Electric, and Hybrid Cars. It has been found that Hybrid Taxis have better performance in terms of cost, emission reduction, mobility, and traffic noise compared to conventional cars. Finally, for those two modes, the application of smart technology is evaluated, and it is inferred that the utilization of the tools in a sufficient manner can make those transportation more sustainable.
AB - Qatar has initiated a vast megaproject including an integrated transportation service. To meet the need for ongoing demand, the Government of the country instigated the bus and taxi service under the KARWA banner. The study aims to evince the sustainability of the KARWA service. In terms of acceptance, it is evident that those different modes of transportation have two different scenarios. Therefore, the study evaluated the sustainability of bus which is comparatively lower acceptance in terms of public acceptance. It is observed that public acceptance could be regulated following different aspects such as time reliability, safety, comfort, and privacy, etc. On the other hand, the taxi service is evaluated following the technological aspect. For KARWA Taxi, three-car technologies have been compared, which were Conventional Internal Combustion Engine, Electric, and Hybrid Cars. It has been found that Hybrid Taxis have better performance in terms of cost, emission reduction, mobility, and traffic noise compared to conventional cars. Finally, for those two modes, the application of smart technology is evaluated, and it is inferred that the utilization of the tools in a sufficient manner can make those transportation more sustainable.
KW - bus
KW - electric cars
KW - hybrid taxi
KW - public acceptance
KW - smart applications
KW - sustainable transportation
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIEA52957.2021.9436707
DO - 10.1109/ICIEA52957.2021.9436707
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107522038
T3 - 2021 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, ICIEA 2021
SP - 583
EP - 588
BT - 2021 IEEE 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, ICIEA 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, ICIEA 2021
Y2 - 23 April 2021 through 26 April 2021
ER -