Optimizing Passenger Transfer Coordination in a Large Scale Rapid Rail Network
Urban rapid rail transit, or metro, is an essential travel mode for daily commuters in many metropolitan areas. Transfer stations, as hubs connecting various transit lines spatially, used to be the bottlenecks of the network due to its high volume of transfer passengers during peak periods. Coordinating train arrivals at the hubs by adjusting train departing times from the terminal may significantly reduce passenger transfer time. A mathematic model is developed and the optimal justification of train departure times which minimizes the total transfer time was found by a simulated annealing algorithm. A real-world metro network with five lines intersecting at thirteen stations is applied to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. The passenger origin-destination demand of the study network was estimated based on data provided by an automatic fare collection system.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Intermodal Transfer Facilities.
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Authors:
- Liu, Xiaobo
- Qu, Hezhou
- Chien, Steven I-Jy
- Spasovic, Lazar
- Ran, Bin
- Huang, Minghua
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Departure time; Mathematical models; Optimization; Origin and destination; Rail transit; Schedules and scheduling; Transfers; Travel demand
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01556514
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-4225
- Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 6 2015 1:46PM