TY - JOUR
T1 - A reliability-based assignment method for railway networks with heterogeneous passengers
AU - Xu, Guangming
AU - Liu, Wei
AU - Yang, Hai
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their comments, which have helped improve both the technical quality and exposition of the paper. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( U1334207 , 71701216 ), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China ( 2017M612593 ), Postdoctoral Foundation of Central South University, China ( 182045 ), and the Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council ( HKUST16205715 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Travel reliability can play an important role in shaping travelers’ route choice behavior. This paper develops a railway passenger assignment method to capture the reliability-based route choices, where the trains can have stochastic delays. The overall travel reliability has two components: the travel time reliability (of trains) and the associated transfer reliability (of connections). In this context, mean-and-variance-based effective travel cost is adopted to model passengers’ evaluation of different travel options in the railway network. Moreover, passengers are heterogeneous as they may evaluate the effective travel cost differently, and they may have different requirements for the successful transfer probability (if transfers are involved in the trip). The determination of travel time reliability (of trains) is based on the travel delay distribution, and the successful transfer probability is calculated based on the delay probabilities of two trains in the transfer process. An algorithm has been designed for solving the model, and numerical examples are presented to test and illustrate the model.
AB - Travel reliability can play an important role in shaping travelers’ route choice behavior. This paper develops a railway passenger assignment method to capture the reliability-based route choices, where the trains can have stochastic delays. The overall travel reliability has two components: the travel time reliability (of trains) and the associated transfer reliability (of connections). In this context, mean-and-variance-based effective travel cost is adopted to model passengers’ evaluation of different travel options in the railway network. Moreover, passengers are heterogeneous as they may evaluate the effective travel cost differently, and they may have different requirements for the successful transfer probability (if transfers are involved in the trip). The determination of travel time reliability (of trains) is based on the travel delay distribution, and the successful transfer probability is calculated based on the delay probabilities of two trains in the transfer process. An algorithm has been designed for solving the model, and numerical examples are presented to test and illustrate the model.
KW - Effective travel cost
KW - Equilibrium assignment
KW - Railway network
KW - Travel reliability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.trc.2018.06.017
DO - 10.1016/j.trc.2018.06.017
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85049449030
SN - 0968-090X
VL - 93
SP - 501
EP - 524
JO - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
JF - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
ER -