Morning commute in congested urban rail transit system: a macroscopic model for equilibrium distribution of passenger arrivals
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2023
Subject Area
place - urban, mode - rail, operations - capacity, operations - frequency, operations - scheduling, ridership - behaviour, ridership - commuting, planning - methods
Keywords
Rail transit system, transit congestion, fundamental diagram, departure time choice equilibrium
Abstract
This paper proposes a macroscopic model to describe the equilibrium distribution of passenger arrivals for the morning commute problem in a congested urban rail transit system. We use a macroscopic train operation sub-model developed by Seo, Wada, and Fukuda to express the interaction between the dynamics of passengers and trains in a simplified manner while maintaining their essential physical relations. The equilibrium conditions of the proposed model are derived and a solution method is provided. The characteristics of the equilibrium are then examined both analytically and numerically. As an application of the proposed model, we analyze a simple time-dependent timetable optimization problem with equilibrium constraints and reveal that a ‘capacity increasing paradox’, in which a higher dispatch frequency increases the equilibrium cost, exists. Furthermore, insights into the design of the timetable are obtained and its influence on passengers' equilibrium travel costs is evaluated.
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Recommended Citation
Zhang, J., Wada, K., & Oguchi, T. (2023). Morning commute in congested urban rail transit system: A macroscopic model for equilibrium distribution of passenger arrivals. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 11(1), 2195582.
