Method for Determining the Valid Travel Route of Railways Based on Generalised Cost under the Syncretic Railway Network

Travel route options for passengers can provide data support for railway line planning, passenger flow organization, and train operation establishment. A critical review of the literature indicates that previous studies mainly focused on choices offered by a single railway network path without much consideration of China’s normal-speed and high-speed integrated railway network and the effect of train timetable on passengers’ travel choice. In this study, a method based on generalized cost is proposed to discover the valid routes of passenger travel in the integrated network of China’s normal-speed and high-speed railways. After quantifying the effects of train fare, travel time, transfer, travel convenience, comfort, and other factors on the generalized expenses of passengers, this study presents a generalized cost determination method when individuals select an option from different seats of different trains of specific railway transport products. Theoretically, the valid routes considering the train schedule is defined, and a valid route search algorithm is designed using the deep traversal idea in a new valid route searching network. Considering the Lanzhou-Beijing passenger travel routes as an example, this study verifies the practicability of the generalized cost calculation method, as well as that of the valid routes search method.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8287648
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2020 Zhiqiang Tian, et al.
• Authors:
  • Tian, Zhiqiang
  • Sun, Guofeng
  • Chen, Dingjun
  • Qiu, Zhicheng
  • Ma, Yawen
• Publication Date: 2020

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Serial:
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation
  • Volume: 2020
  • Issue Number: Article ID 8287648
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0197-6729
  • EISSN: 2042-3195
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2042-3195
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; High speed rail; Mode choice; Passengers; Railroad travel; Travel behavior; Travel time
• Geographic Terms: Beijing (China); Lanzhou (China)
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01730479
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 4 2020 3:54PM