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Coupling analysis of passenger and train flows for a large-scale urban rail transit system

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Abstract

Coupling analysis of passenger and train flows is an important approach in evaluating and optimizing the operation efficiency of large-scale urban rail transit (URT) systems. This study proposes a passenger—train interaction simulation approach to determine the coupling relationship between passenger and train flows. On the bases of time-varying origin—destination demand, train timetable, and network topology, the proposed approach can restore passenger behaviors in URT systems. Upstream priority, queuing process with first-in-first-serve principle, and capacity constraints are considered in the proposed simulation mechanism. This approach can also obtain each passenger’s complete travel chain, which can be used to analyze (including but not limited to) various indicators discussed in this research to effectively support train schedule optimization and capacity evaluation for urban rail managers. Lastly, the proposed model and its potential application are demonstrated via numerical experiments using real-world data from the Beijing URT system (i.e., rail network with the world’s highest passenger ridership).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Ping Zhang, Xin Yang, Jianjun Wu, Huijun Sun & Ziyou Gao

  2. Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp. Ltd., Beijing, 100044, China

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This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFB1600702), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71621001, 72071015, 71701013, and 71890972/71890970), the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. L191024), the 111 Project (Grant No. B20071), and the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety (Grant No. RCS2021ZZ001).

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Zhang, P., Yang, X., Wu, J. et al. Coupling analysis of passenger and train flows for a large-scale urban rail transit system. Front. Eng. Manag. 10, 250–261 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42524-021-0180-2

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