Optimization of Passenger Transportation Corridor Mode Supply Structure in Regional Comprehensive Transport Considering Economic Equilibrium

Jingni Song, Feng Chen, Qunqi Wu, Weiyu Liu, Feiyang Xue and Kai Du
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Jingni Song: School of Highway, Chang’an University, Middle-Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China
Feng Chen: School of Highway, Chang’an University, Middle-Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China
Qunqi Wu: School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Middle-Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China
Weiyu Liu: School of Electronics and Control Engineering, Chang’an University, Middle-Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China
Feiyang Xue: School of Electronics and Control Engineering, Chang’an University, Middle-Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China
Kai Du: School of Electronics and Control Engineering, Chang’an University, Middle-Section of Nan’er Huan Road, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: Reasonable transportation network layoutsarecritical for optimizing a comprehensive transport system. With the gradual development of a transportation industry from quantitative expansion to structural optimization, and transformation of various transportation modes from independent operation to integrated development, traditional comprehensive transport planning theories and methods have not adapted. In thispaper, a new planning concept is proposed from the perspective of economic equilibrium with theaim ofoptimizing a supply structure for a comprehensive transport passenger transportation corridor. An in-depth analysis was conducted of the internal mechanism of the dynamic equilibrium between supply and demand of this corridor,wherein the maximum of the globaltransportation demand subjectcustomer surplus wastaken as a target function, respective interest functions of a demand subject and a supply subject served as constraints to quantitatively optimize the supply structure of the passenger transportation corridor in comprehensive transport, and a Gradient Descent algorithmwasdesigned. The results show that the proposed model better reflectstheeconomic operation mechanism of a passenger transportation market in a comprehensive transport corridor (CTC), and prove that the supply structure of CTC is closely related to passenger flow, travel value distribution, a supply subject's scale rate of return,and travel time. These research results have important academic values in terms of improving passenger transportation corridor structure optimization in region-specific comprehensive transport that conforms to a market economy mechanism. This concept can be extended from single corridor planning to point-to-point and door-to-door transportation supply structure planning, andto comprehensive transport network planning and urban transportation planning without loss of generality.

Keywords: Regional comprehensive transport; Structure optimization of passenger transportation corridor mode; Economic equilibrium; Consumer surplus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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