Pure Electric Bus of Operational Consulting and Analysis Transit: A Case Study of Wuhu City

As China’s socio-economic progress accelerates, residents’ mobility preferences are growing more varied. Owing to their eco-friendliness, high capacity, fixed routes and low prices, pure-electric buses have become a key component of urban transit. Yet day-to-day service is hindered by low fleet availability, limited daily kilometres and poor service quality, all of which erode operation efficiency. Taking Wuhu’s public transport network as a case study, this paper builds a performance-assessment framework for electric bus routes. Using stop-level topology, vehicle specifications and spatiotemporal passenger-flow data from eight representative routes, the study applies the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). A three-tier hierarchy—goal, criteria and alternatives—is constructed; index weights and pairwise comparison matrices are then computed to rank overall route effectiveness. The findings accurately pinpoint operational bottlenecks and furnish quantitative guidance for adaptive network redesign and resource reallocation, offering a transferable benchmark for enhancing the performance of medium-sized city transit systems.