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In recent years, the metro system plays an increasingly important role in meeting the demand for urban transportation in some of China’s mega-cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai. To meet passengers' nighttime travel needs and stimulate urban nighttime economic development, subways in some megacities extend their operation hours. In the extended operation period, some routes connecting a given origin and destination (O-D) pair become unreachable which made the transit service providers can’t use the conventional method to analysis the passenger flow of plus-train (Trains operate during the extended period) in the extended operation period. This paper proposed a methodology for calculating the passenger flow of the plus-trains based on automatic fare collection (AFC) data and realized train timetable. Considering real-time reachability of the routes which connected an O-D pair, a weighted assignment function among the remaining reachable routes is provided. Then the authors calculate the passenger flow of each plus-train by estimating which trains were chosen, this integrated approach is applied to the Shanghai metro system. Initial case study on Shanghai metro shows that the proposed method works well, the calculated plus-train flow and actual survey results match more than 90% which could provide reliable passenger flow data for the optimization of the network plus-train schedule.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP065 Standing Committee on Rail Transit Systems.

19-04115

English

7p

2019

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Origin and destination; Passenger traffic; Passenger traffic measurement; Passenger volume; Rail transit; Subways; Traffic flow

Beijing (China); Shanghai (China)

Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation; Railroads

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-04115

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 7 2018 9:34AM