Performance evaluation of public transportation system : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing : 9786139969388 : 6139969387 : 07 Dec 2018 : Public transportation is a crucial part of the solution of nation's Economic, energy, and environmental challenges- helping to bring a better quality of life. Among all the public transportation systems, buses are the most popular and most commonly used ones because of their inherent flexibility, adaptability to changing employment and residential patterns, and low capital costs. Public bus transport is a very crucial and critical component of the mass transportation system in a country. Buses carry majority of the public transport passengers in Indian cities. Now a day's Bus services in particular have deteriorated, and their relative output has been further reduced as passengers have turned to personalized modes and intermediate public transport.