A Passenger Assignment Model in a Schedule-Based High-Speed Railway System

This paper formulates and examines the passenger flow assignment problem in high-speed railway (HSR) systems with multiple-class users and multiple-class seats, given the train schedules and time-varying travel demand. In particular, the authors take into account advance booking cost of travelers in the itinerary choice problem. Rather than a direct approach to model advance booking cost with an explicit cost function, the authors consider advance booking cost endogenously, which is determined as a part of the passenger choice equilibrium. They show that this equilibrium problem can be formulated as a linear programming (LP) model based on a three-dimension network representation of time, space, and seat class. At the equilibrium solution, a set of Lagrange multipliers for the LP model are obtained, which are associated with the rigid in-train passenger capacity constraints (limited numbers of seats). The authors found that the sum of the Lagrange multipliers along a path in the three-dimension network reflects the advance booking cost of tickets (due to advance/early booking to guarantee availability) perceived by the passengers.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB30 Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Transportation Research Board

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  • Authors:
    • Xu, Guangming
    • Yang, Hai
    • Liu, Wei
    • Shi, Feng
  • Conference:
  • Date: 2019

Language

  • English

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  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References;

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01698248
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 19-03000
  • Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
  • Created Date: Mar 1 2019 3:51PM