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Last train scheduling for maximizing passenger destination reachability in urban rail transit networks

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  • Zhou, Yu
  • Wang, Yun
  • Yang, Hai
  • Yan, Xuedong

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As urban rail transit (URT) systems usually do not operate for the whole day, the last train service offers the last daily chance for late-night passengers to utilize URT services to reach their target destination stations. This paper formally introduces and models the destination-reachability based last train timetabling problem (DR-LTTP in abbreviation) in URT networks, which involves both the last train timetabling and the passenger assignment. The DR-LTTP is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming and can be solved by existing commercial optimization software. The model is illustrated with a simple numerical example on a minimum spanning tree network, and comparison experiments are conducted between DR-LTTP model and station-transferability based last train timetabling problem (ST-LTTP in abbreviation). Finally, a real case study with Beijing URT network is conducted to test the performance of our model.

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  • Zhou, Yu & Wang, Yun & Yang, Hai & Yan, Xuedong, 2019. "Last train scheduling for maximizing passenger destination reachability in urban rail transit networks," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 79-95.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:129:y:2019:i:c:p:79-95
    DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2019.09.006
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