Traffic Management Plan Evaluation Outside the Station in Emergent Events of Urban Rail Transit

Abstract

Emergent events of urban rail transit may cause train delay, even service disruption, and then lead to a large number of passengers stranded. Urban rail transit system is difficult to maintain normal operation, so passengers shall be transported through other traffic modes outside the station. Traffic management plan outside the station is analyzed and evaluated in advance, which can increase evacuation efficiency and reduce the influence of events on society. The plan is evaluated through analyzing and simulation. Firstly, this paper analyzes the influence of events on traffic outside the station and introduces common means of traffic management. Then, this paper studies integrated simulation method and chooses key evaluation indicators, thus use the order of preference by similarity to ideal solution to evaluate the traffic management plan based on simulation. Finally, taking Jiangsu Road station as an example, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of different plans by simulation, the evaluation results show that plan 2 (partial priority) is optimal, which provides a reference for urban rail transit emergency management.

Keywords

Emergent events / Urban rail transit / Traffic management outside the station / Simulation evaluation

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Funding

Science and Technology Research Foundation for Transportation of China(No. 2015318221020)