Modeling the effect of real-time crowding information (RTCI) on passenger distribution in trains

Overcrowding has become a big challenge for public transport systems, affecting passengers’ travel experience. At the same time, service supply is often underutilized due to large variations in crowding across services, vehicle trips on the same service and different compartments of the same vehicle. Real-time operational measures, such as...

Determinants of passengers' metro car choice revealed through automated data sources: A Stockholm metro case study

The paper proposes a methodology based on multiple automated<br/>data sources for evaluating the eects of station layout, arriving traveller flows,<br/>and platform and on-board crowding on the distribution of boarding passengers<br/>in individual cars of a metro train. The methodology is applied to a case<br/>study for a sequence of stations in...