Conceptual study on evaluation of advanced public transportation systems

Based on advanced public transportation system (APTS), the public transit become changed fundamentally as compared with traditional public transit. The traditional evaluation architecture of public transit improvement is based on the characteristics of APTS and cities in China. This paper classifies and defines APTS. And the evaluation architecture of APTS is presented. The result has an important theoretical significance and practical value in the development of APTS in China.