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\section{Significance of the Research}  \label{sec:significance}  \begin{table} Mobility serves as a crucial factor in the daily business processes of cities as it affects the socio-economic development of an area. With the countries' urbanization, human activities and businesses greatly increasing, the proportion rate of motor-vehicle ownership and use is rising to 15 to 20 percent per year \cite{Odeleye_2008}. Traffic congestion is a hindrance to effective mobility. \ref{table:philippinemotorstatistics} shows the increase of motor vehicles and commuters in Metro Manila alone.\\  \begin{table}[!htb]  \begin{tabular}{ c c c c c }  \emph {Item} & \emph{2009} & \emph{2010} & \emph{2011} & \emph{2012} \\ \hline  \textbf {Motor Vehicles} \\ (Private, For Hire, Government) & 6,220,433 & 6,634,855 & 7,138,942 & 7,463,393 \\ \hline \textbf {Total Passenger Traffic} & 43.872.565 & 52.701.654 & 49,815,295 & 49,485,001 \\ \hline  Disembarking & 21,723,679 & 26,851,004 & 25,384,389 & 25,217,885 \\ \hline  Embarking & 22,148,886 & 25,850,641 & 24,230,906 & 24,267,116 \\ \hline  \end{tabular}   \caption{Rail, Water, Land and Air Transportation Statistics 2009-2012} \label{table:philippinemotorstatistics}  \end{table}  \\  Mobility serves as a crucial factor in the daily business processes of cities as it affects the socio-economic development of an area. With the countries' urbanization, human activities and businesses greatly increasing, the proportion rate of motor-vehicle ownership and use is rising to 15 to 20 percent per year \cite{Odeleye_2008}. Traffic congestion is a hindrance to effective mobility. \ref{table:philippinemotorstatistics} shows the increase of motor vehicles and commuters in Metro Manila alone.\\  To design a bus network without the use of prototypes on the road and alternatively using simulations using agent based models to evaluate the concept's efficiency is inexpensive and prevents major risks of implementation without proper study.