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Zone fare system is prevalent worldwide. This paper aims to solve the problem of designing zone fare system in a rail transit line. The problem includes zone division and fare calculation. It is necessary to consider the passenger as well as operator to find an impartial zone fare system. A fair zone fare system is one where the zone fares are as close as possible to the fares of the distance-based fare system, in which the fare is correlated with the actual distance of a trip. Thus, the fare deviations for the trips between zone fare system and distance-based fare system are utilized as the evaluation metric of fairness. To achieve the goal of minimizing fare deviations for all trips, the authors introduce three indexes: average absolute deviation, average squared deviation, and maximum mileage fare deviation. Recognizing that the joint optimization of zone division and fare calculation has been ignored in the previous studies, the authors develop a joint optimization algorithm to fill the gap. In the algorithm, they take the three indexes as the objective functions, and the key technique is the zone boundary adjustment. Numerical analysis has confirmed that the proposed algorithm can give a joint optimal scheme. In terms of the practical application, this study can provide guidance for the cities that plan to implement the zone fare system

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP030 Standing Committee on Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy.

20-05318

English

17p

2020

Transportation Research Board 99th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Distance; Fare collection; Implementation; Rail transit; Zone fares

Economics; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2020 Paper #20-05318

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Aug 1 2022 3:03PM

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