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http://dx.doi.org/10.7782/JKSR.2017.20.1.156

Improvement of Service Quality for Urban Railway Operations Using Simulation  

Kim, DongHee (Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Lee, HongSeob (Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway / v.20, no.1, 2017 , pp. 156-163 More about this Journal
Abstract
In the major operation sections of the urban railway, there has been habitual delay, and delay propagation; another problem is the increase of crowds and of inconvenience to passengers. The urban railway has different characteristics from rural railways, such as uncertainty of demand and irregularity of train operation. In urban railways, recently, operators manage quality indicators of service using operation results, such as the delay of train operation and the congestion of trains. However, because the urban railway has characteristics in which demand, passenger behavior, and train operation mutually affect each other, it is difficult to express the quality of service that passengers actually feel. In this paper, we suggest a quality indicator of service from the viewpoint of passengers, and present a demand responsive multi-train simulation method to predict dynamic dwell time and train operation status; we also use simulation results to consider changes in the quality indicator of service.
Keywords
Delay; Propagation; Congestion rate; Quality of service; Multi-train simulation;
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