Assessing the cost of transfer inconvenience in public transport systems: A case study of the London Underground

Few studies have adequately assessed the cost of transfers² in public transport systems, or provided useful guidance on transfer improvements, such as where to invest (which facility), how to invest (which aspect), and how much to invest (quantitative justification of the investment). This paper proposes a new method based on path choice,³ taking into account both the operator’s service supply and the customers’ subjective perceptions to assess transfer cost and to identify ways to reduce it. This method evaluates different transfer components (e.g., transfer walking, waiting, and penalty) with distinct policy solutions and differentiates between transfer stations and movements.The method is applied to one of the largest and most complex public transport systems in the world, the London Underground (LUL), with a focus on 17 major transfer stations and 303 transfer movements. This study confirms that transfers pose a significant cost to LUL, and that cost is distributed unevenly across stations and across platforms at a station. Transfer stations are perceived very differently by passengers in terms of their overall cost and composition. The case study suggests that a better understanding of transfer behavior and improvements to the transfer experience could significantly benefit public transport systems.     

A topological route choice model for metro

This article presents a route choice model for public transit networks that incorporates variables related to network topology, complementing those found in traditional models based on service levels (travel time, cost, transfers, etc.) and users’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics (income level, trip purpose, etc.). The topological variables represent concepts such as the directness of the chosen route and user knowledge of the network. For both of these factors, the necessary data is endogenous to the modelling process and can be quantified without the need for information-gathering beyond what is normally required for building route choice models. Other novel variables in the proposed formulation capture notions of user comfort such as vehicle occupancy rates and certain physical characteristics of network stations. We conclude that these new variables significantly improve the explanatory and predictive ability of existing route choice specifications.     

Modeling heterogeneous risk-taking behavior in route choice: A stochastic dominance approach

This paper proposes a unified approach to modeling heterogonous risk-taking behavior in route choice based on the theory of stochastic dominance (SD). Specifically, the first-, second-, and third-order stochastic dominance (FSD, SSD, TSD) are respectively linked to insatiability, risk-aversion and ruin-aversion within the framework of utility maximization. The paths that may be selected by travelers of different risk-taking preferences can be obtained from the corresponding SD-admissible paths, which can be generated using general dynamic programming. This paper also analyzes the relationship between the SD-based approach and other route choice models that consider risk-taking behavior. These route choice models employ a variety of reliability indexes, which often make the problem of finding optimal paths intractable. We show that the optimal paths with respect to these reliability indexes often belong to one of the three SD-admissible path sets. This finding offers not only an interpretation of risk-taking behavior consistent with the SD theory for these route choice models, but also a unified and computationally viable solution approach through SD-admissible path sets, which are usually small and can be generated without having to enumerate all paths. A generic label-correcting algorithm is proposed to generate FSD-, SSD-, and TSD-admissible paths, and numerical experiments are conducted to test the algorithm and to verify the analytical results.     

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基于广州居民出行调查成果,本文从模型架构、效用函数基本形式、参数标定及校核等几个方面对交通方式选择模型的构建进行研究. 提出了方式划分的基本原则,并针对无车家庭、有小汽车家庭和摩托车家庭构建层次划分. 以小汽车家庭为例,阐述方式划分的基本形式. 进而,提出了方式划分参数标定的方法和基本步骤以及系数校核的关键点. 最后将预测结果和实际观测数据进行比较,验证模型的有效性. 本文提出不同层次交通方式划分模型,提高了模型的精度,并在效用函数中引入收入、车辆拥有和吸引量等因素,增强了模型的适用性,为其他类似城市交通方式选择模型的构建提供一定的参考.     

谈海轮长江航行进出锚地的操作

长江航线的船舶数量剧增,以及长江航道本身的复杂特性,使得这一水域的海事事故时有发生,而这其中海轮进出锚地时是发生海事的高发时段。本文论述了船舶进出锚地的基本操作步骤,分析了长江航道船舶进出锚地的操作要领及注意事项。     

隧道掘进机（TBM）选型探讨

我国山岭隧道的长度不断增加,数十公里的隧道不断投入到施工阶段,然而由于埋深大、施工支洞布置困难、环境保护要求高等因素影响,越来越多的硬岩掘进机（TBM）得以应用。TBM对地质条件的适应性不及钻爆法灵活,但适宜的地质条件下可以取得很高的施工进度,它可分为开敞式、单护盾、双护盾等不同类型。不同的TBM有不同的特点,不同的工...     

城市土地利用特征对居民出行方式的影响——以深圳市为例

为缓解日益严重的城市交通问题、优化居民出行方式,有必要研究城市土地利用与交通系统的协调问题.以深圳市为例,应用多元Logit模型(MNL模型),纳入城市土地利用变量与出行者的家庭、社会、经济等变量,分析其对居民工作与非工作出行方式的影响.研究结果表明,出行起点的城市区位是影响居民出行方式的重要因素之一.相对于组团中心和...     

基于协同航路技术的航路资源分配方法研究

为减轻扇区拥挤,科学地利用扇区时隙资源,降低航班延误损失,本文研究了航路资源分配方法,将研究重点放到航路上,并建立了以航班总延误损失最小为目标,以扇区容量为约束的简化数学模型,该模型可以让航空公司灵活、自主地为航班确立优先等级。本文选择航班实际数据进行仿真,并使用优化软件对模型进行求解,算例仿真结果表明,所提方法能够大...     

三峡库区定线制航路改革与航道建设探讨

介绍实行船舶定线制航路改革的内涵、作用和方法,总结长江干线已实施船舶定线制改革的经验,深入分析川江和三峡库区的航道条件和通航船舶类型等特点,校核航道尺度,探讨三峡库区实施定线制航路改革的方法和航标等配套设施的布设方式,可作为今后规划建设川江航道的参考.     

多源交通信息条件下的出行行为选择研究

在考虑多源交通信息可能导致信息过剩,从而影响决策者出行选择的条件下,引入决策论的思想,通过对多源交通信息方式发布的特点分析,应用模糊物元理论,建立个体出行的行为选择模型,在熵值法确定客观权重的条件下,根据贴近度的大小对决策方案进行选择,克服出行者的主观经验判断。通过实例计算,证明了不确定型决策在多源交通信息影响下出行者路径选择方面的可用性,客观上能为其提供最优的出行路径。