Metro passenger flow control with station-to-station cooperation based on stop-skipping and boarding limiting

Abstract

Metro passenger flow control problem is studied under given total inbound demand in this work, which considers passenger demand control and train capacity supply. Relevant connotations are analyzed and a mathematical model is developed. The decision variables are boarding limiting and stop-skipping strategies and the objective is the maximal passenger profit. And a passenger original station choice model based on utility theory is built to modify the inbound passenger distribution among stations. Algorithm of metro passenger flow control scheme is designed, where two key technologies of stopping-station choice and headway adjustment are given and boarding limiting and train stopping-station scheme are optimized. Finally, a real case of Beijing metro is taken for example to verify validity. The results show that in the three scenarios with different ratios of normal trains to stop-skipping trains, the total limited passenger volume is the smallest and the systematic profit is the largest in scenario 3.

Keywords

metro / passenger flow control / stop-skipping / boarding limiting / passenger original station choice

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