Metro passengers' route choice model and its application considering perceived transfer threshold.

ABSTRACT: With the rapid development of the Metro network in China, the greatly increased route alternatives make passengers' route choice behavior and passenger flow assignment more complicated, which presents challenges to the operation management. In this paper, a path sized logit model is adopted to analyze passengers' route choice preferences considering such parameters as in-vehicle time, number of transfers, and transfer time. Moreover, the "perceived transfer threshold" is defined and included in the utility function to reflect the penalty difference caused by transfer time on passengers' perceived utility under various numbers of transfers. Next, based on the revealed preference data collected in the Guangzhou Metro, the proposed model is calibrated. The appropriate perceived transfer thres

SUBMITTER: Jin F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5619739 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature