Evaluating skip-stop policy in urban rail transit systems based on passenger cost

Increasing the operating speed in public transport systems can increase the system capacity, reduce the overall passenger travel time and improve experienced comfort. Skip-stop operation, where subsets of the trains operating on the same tracks skip certain intermediate stops, can accelerate the service and improve passengers’ overall travel...

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...

Evaluating crowding in individual train cars using a dynamic transit assignment model

As travel demand grows in many cities around the world, overcrowding in public transport systems has become a major issue and has many negative effects for both users and operators. Measures to address on-board congestion span from large-scale strategic investments (e.g. increasing infrastructure capacity), through tactical planning (e.g....

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

We propose a methodology based on multiple automated data sources for evaluating the effects of station layout, arriving traveler flows, and platform and on-board crowding on the distribution of boarding passengers among individual cars of metro trains. The methodology is applied to a case study for a sequence of stations in the Stockholm...

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...