Public Norms in the Operation Scheme of Urban Rail Transit Express Trains: The Case of the Beijing Changping Line

Shenghan Zhou, Houxiang Liu, Bo Wang, Bang Chen, Yuliang Zhou and Wenbing Chang
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Shenghan Zhou: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Houxiang Liu: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Bo Wang: Beijing Transportation Information Center, Beijing 100161, China
Bang Chen: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Yuliang Zhou: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Wenbing Chang: School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-24

Abstract: The development of urban rail transit is of great significance to the sustainable development of cities. However, the formulation of public norms of the urban rail transit train operation scheme lacks the corresponding theoretical support, rationality and scientificity. Therefore, based on the research on passenger flow conditions, this paper establishes an optimization model of express train operation and uses a heuristic genetic algorithm to solve it. In addition, this paper takes the Beijing Changping Line as an example to conduct empirical research. Results show that the optimization model established reduces the operation cost of operating enterprises, improves the capacity of urban rail transit, reduces travel time and maintains the full load rate of trains at a more comfortable level. This will improve the attractiveness of urban rail transit and promote benign interaction between operators and passengers. It will also provide a theoretical basis for formulating public norms of transit train operation, make it more scientific and reasonable and promote the development of urban rail transit.

Keywords: urban rail transit; public norms; express train; operation scheme; genetic algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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