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Download Article (PDF) International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society (EMCS 2016) Research on Route Choice of Passengers Based on The Travel Time Wang Qi * Ma Kun Beijing JiaoTong University Beijing JiaoTong University School of Traffic and Transportation School of Traffic and Transportation Beijing, China Beijing, China [email protected] [email protected] * Corresponding Author Abstract— With the development of networked urban rail through the data in Automated Fare Collection (AFC) transit system, The ticket income distribution between each system and identifying of travel route choice behavior of operator and line is becoming more and more complex. To passengers. Finally, the results are validated by the accurately grasp the trip characteristics of passengers who methods of simulation and the actual data (about a choose the rail transit as their trip mode is of vital practical Origin-Destination in Beijing). importance. The related information about the time and space can be obtained from Automated Fare Collection II. THE PROBLEM OF THE RAIL TRANSIT system of the urban rail transit. And to summarize the PASSENGER ROUTE CHOICE characteristics of the distribution of passengers travel time. By analyzing the data obtained. Calculate the proportion of At present, the Rail transit networked operation has passengers on different routes of the Origin-Destination and been inducing will cause the difference of the passengers construct models about the passengers' route choices, based travel route choice behavior. Travel time influences most on the time distribution of the passengers in a period of time on the travel route choice behavior of passengers [1, 3]. In about one Origin-Destination. Select a practical case of general, the most important factor to determine the route of Beijing Rail Transit Network to validate the correctness and the passengers chosen is travel time. By means of the AFC accuracy of the model by the methods of simulation or the system, the travel time of each passenger can be obtained actual data of Automated Fare Collection system. by calculating. To analyze the route choice behavior of Keywords-Rail Transit; Travel Time; Pedestrian Flow; passengers based on the distribution of passenger travel Urban Rail Transit; Ticket Revenue Clearing time. A. The Relationship between the Route Choice and I. INTRODUCTION Travel Time A large scale of urban rain transit network has been From the statistics, it analyzed the form or change of established in many cities, thus as Beijing, Shanghai, the travel time which has studied the problem of the Guangzhou, Entering the network operation stage. The passengers’ route choice through the passenger travel time “one-ticket transfer” mode has applied to Rail transit data recorded in the AFC system. In some OD pairs, as network operators. The mode can improve the convenience Fig.2-1, From Gongzhufen to Chaoyangmen, the curve has of the passengers and save the transfer time. However, the two peaks in the travel time. The OD pair performs the transfer information of passengers is difficult to accurately distribution with two peaks approximately. Comparing obtain, therefore it’s difficult to recognize the passenger's with the practical network, there are some differences in travel route. The accurately analysis of passenger route the travel time of the two routes. Therefore, there are two choice behavior provides a thorough grounding in the fare effective routes so the travel time is required to be different. clearing, and basic operations planning and traffic related work. Si Bingfeng [1] constructed the generalized cost function of urban rail transit network, and had analyzed the route choice behavior of passengers in urban rail transit network. Luo Qin [2] constructed the theoretical framework of the passenger flow distribution based on the basic characteristics of network operations, and studied simulation system about the distribution of networked passengers flow. As the travel time of different travel Figure 2-1. The Distribution Dagram of Gongzhufen - Chaoyangmen routes in the network are different. The paper studies route OD Travel Time choice behavior by comparing or classifying the different passengers' travel time. If the travel time distribution function of the two routes In this paper, a passenger route reckoning model is of one OD appears to be the same (or similar) situation, on constructed, by analyzing the rules of passenger travel time this occasion, the result of calculation is invalid, because © 2016. The authors - Published by Atlantis Press 435 the essence of the method is to calculate the proportion of For each route with a fixed OD, the composition of passenger flow by the different distribution of travel time. random time: In this case, there is no difference between the two routes Tsj t act t pwt t ict t iwt t egt (3-3) from the aspect of travel time. Passenger's choice will have t , t , t can be considered as equidistribution. a strong random in this case, it's believed that the act ict egt proportion of passenger flow of the two routes is equal. t pwt is platform waiting time. tiwt is Transfer waiting It isn't entirely consistent of the passengers’ route time, which is a part of the Platform Wait Time. t is choices in the several effective routes. So, research on the pwt characteristics of passenger travel time and the relationship considered the waiting time of that is not transfer, That is between the travel time and travel distance or transfer to say, it’s the waiting time of the first train. tiwt is the times through dividing of travel time, according to the waiting time about the several trains later. characteristics of the travel time, analyzing the In the peak period of operation, a great number of characteristics of the passengers' route choices [4, 5]. people are on the platform. Generally, the transport capacity of the train is not to satisfy demand, the remaining B. The Composition of Passengers’ Travel Time capacity is insufficient, In this situation, It is a part of the The Time-record of passengers travel time based on waiting passengers have no alternative other than waiting AFC data is the time from passengers at the Origin metro the next train, the site is called "left behind". station swipe card in bound to passengers at the Based on spot investigation in Beijing rail transit Destination metro station swipe card outbound, which does network, the “left behind” appears in most stations in the not include the time of passengers entering the rail transit network in different degree in the morning peak period [6]. station, buying ticket, security and so on. Because of the platform is crowded, disorder of boarding, In two cases such including without transfer and A lot of vehicle doors.it is not appeared that it got it as transfer, Part of the time is fixed, and the other part of the soon as someone reach here. The passengers of arriving at time will show different because of the characteristics of first is pretty randomness, who are not waiting uniformly the passenger's personal or other factors. In this paper, at the entrance to the vehicle entrance, they will gather at these two kinds of time are divided into two categories: the door when the train is about to enter the station. So the Travel ESSential time and Travel RANdom time. boarding is in strong randomicity. According to spot So the travel time can be expressed as: investigation, there are few passengers need more than two (2-1) T tess t ran times "left behind". Therefore, t pwt , tiwt need to increase So, passengers' travel time of one OD is divided into T or 2T . two parts: f f A part is essential time which includes OTT and the tpwt t pwt iT f , ( i 1,2) necessary part of ACT, PWT, ICT, IWT, EGT; the other （3-4） t t iT, ( i 1,2) part is random time which includes the time of Import and iwt iwt f Export station with more than ESS time, the summation of According to sum up, these random Times can be the time of waiting for the train, the time of Transfer considered as uniform distribution. So the density function walking time with more than ESS time. of Tran is: ()()()()t t t t （3-5） III. PASSENGERS' ROUTE RECKONING MODEL ran 1 1 1 B. Multi-Route Proportional Model A. Probability Density Function of Travel Time For a fixed OD, the effective routes can be chosen by The essential Time can be considered as the same for passengers is usually more than one [7]. The percentage of different passengers on fixed route, therefore, the ESS time passengers choosing each effective route is recorded as , of that route is fixed time for the fixed OD. The difference 1 is caused by a variety of conditions at random times. In the , ··· , and 1 . By formula (3-5), the actual situation, the random time has a constant maximum 2 n n value (Exclusion of few special cases). Therefore, there is travel time distribution of all the passengers with the fixed a upper bound for random time. Assuming the maximum OD is: max value of the random time is T , So the density function n ess （ ） Tod ()()tt i Ti 3-6 of Tran can be expressed as: i1 max f( t ) , 0 t T ran ()t ran (3-1) C. The calculation method for two effective routes 0, else Assuming that the route with a fixed OD is more than According to the formula (3-1), the density function of two, passengers can directly evaluate the removal of the the passenger travel time T is: worse route, the route is selected in the best route L and max 1 f(), t T T t T T ()t ess ess ess ran (3-2) the suboptimal route L .
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