Optimizing Train Connection of Urban Railway Network Considering Passenger Saturation

Mitigating the congestion level on platforms can contribute to passengers' boarding efficiency and ensuring normal operation order and security of stations. With passenger saturation describing the congestion level on platform and by analyzing the constitution of dwelling passengers on each railway platform and its distribution characteristics regarding trains' arrival-departure time, a train arrival-departure time, coordination optimization model of urban railway transit network was established with minimizing the total transferring time among all rail lines as well as the maximum passenger saturation level on platform as the optimization objects. It was followed by a solving algorithm based on genetic algorithm to realize the efficient coordination of train arrival-departure time to each connecting lines at transfer station. Analysis of a numerical example demonstrated that this method can not only efficiently reduce dwell passengers on each platform during high peak period, but also effectively mitigate passenger saturation on platform at transfer stations.

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  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784412442.143
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  • © 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Zhou, Wen-Liang
  • Yang, Xia
  • Xie, Mei-Quan
• Conference:
  • Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
  • Location: Beijing , China
  • Date: 2012-8-3 to 2012-8-6
• Publication Date: 2012-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1399-1409
• Monograph Title: CICTP 2012: Multimodal Transportation Systems—Convenient, Safe, Cost-Effective, Efficient

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crowds; Dwell time; Passenger volume; Rail transit stations; Transfers; Travel time; Urban transit
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01501237
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784412442
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Dec 13 2013 9:42AM