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Title:

PH Fitting of Passenger Flow Arrival Interval Distribution on Urban Railway Transit Stations

Accession Number:

01473379

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The urban railway transit station is essentially a kind of stochastic service system and the passenger flow arrival interval distribution with accurate description of strong randomness is the important basis of elaborate system planning, design and flexible operation management. The existing fitting distribution researches were unable to satisfy the demand for the station stochastic service system’s modeling analysis as well as microcosmic simulation’s demand for accuracy, universality and analyticity. Though phase-type distribution (PH) had been theoretically verified of good analyticity and universality, it requires to determining over much parameters in practical application. Therefore, it still needs further exploration whether the PH can be applied to represent the passenger flow arrival interval distribution on urban railway transit stations. In this paper, seven common distributions and hyper-Erlang distribution (HErD) which is a dense subset of PH were applied to fit the passenger flow arrival interval distribution of entrance and platform on subway stations. The comparison result indicated that HErD fitting achieves the highest accuracy. On this basis, the fitting parameters of HErD were analyzed, finding that this distribution requires to determining two parameters, and only related with variation coefficient, possessing good practicability. Finally, this paper put forward a practical method to determine the parameters of HErD through the easy-captured peak passenger flow volume and super-peak coefficient. This research provides a new selectable PH fitting distribution for passenger flow arrival interval distribution on urban railway transit stations.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Intermodal Transfer Facilities.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-2491

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Jiang, Yangsheng
Hu, Lu
Zhu, Juanxiu
Chen, Yanru

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2491

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:32PM