Competitiveness analysis of urban public transport based on SVM

The comprehensive analysis of urban public transport has an important role in promoting the development of urban public transport. Based on the characteristics of urban public transport, following the principles of scientific, integrity, independence and operational, this paper built a comprehensive analysis index system for urban public transport, then the comprehensive evaluation method based on the support vector machine (SVM) is brought out trying to analyze the urban public transport of comprehensive after the index system is established. And then, a case study is executed by taking 20 cities in Hebei province in China as an example. The research results reveal that the method can efficiently evaluate comprehensively to the urban public transport of comprehensive. Thus it could be useful for the government to make relevant policies to improve the operational performance for public transport. In the end, some policy advices are given.