Multiline Coordinated Skip-Stop Operation at an Urban Rail Transit Transfer Station for Non-recurrent Extreme Passenger Flow Mitigation

Urban rail transit transfer station is a key facility for gathering and switching passenger flows. High passenger demand coupled with non-recurrent events (e.g. train delay) may cause extreme passenger flow and density within the station, resulting in high risks of disastrous consequences (e.g. stampede). This paper proposes multiline coordinated train skip-stop plans to prevent extreme passenger flow and densities at transfer stations. A nonlinear binary programming model is developed and solved by the genetic algorithm (GA) to best plan the multiline skip-stop strategy. Case studies using real passenger demand and train data are performed to verify the model and the algorithm. Results indicate that application of the proposed skip-stop plan can significantly reduce the total passenger waiting time at transfer stations, therefore lower the risk of disastrous consequences.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Transfer Facilities. Alternate title: Optimal Skip-Stop Planning at Urban Rail Transit Transfer Stations for Nonrecurrent Extreme Passenger Flow Mitigation
  • Corporate Authors:

    Transportation Research Board

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  • Authors:
    • Pan, Han-chuan
    • Liu, Yue
    • Liu, Zhi-gang
    • Chen, Wen-jie
  • Conference:
  • Date: 2017

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 19p
  • Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01630613
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 17-02679
  • Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
  • Created Date: Mar 28 2017 5:07PM