Passenger Flow-Oriented Metro Operation without Timetables

Li He, Lei Chen, Jin Liu, Clive Roberts, Saijun Yu, Xujie Feng

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Abstract

Unpredictable fluctuant passenger flow usually exists in urban metro operations. In this situation, traditional predetermined metro timetables cannot always meet the variation of passenger flow, and thus the service quality of the metro system could be affected profoundly. In this paper, by introducing an innovative metro operation method without timetables, we develop a nonlinear integer programming model to continually optimise the train operation to deal with detected real-time passenger flow variations. We aim to minimise the total passenger waiting time in the research time horizon under the vehicle number constraint. A modified genetic algorithm integrated with a macroscopic metro simulator is adopted to solve the proposed model. A case study based on the Beijing Metro Line 19 is implemented to provide a quantitative result for evaluating the proposed passenger flow-oriented metro operation method without timetables. Compared to traditional timetable-based metro operation, the method could significantly improve the metro operation’s flexibility and the quality of services.
Original languageEnglish
Article number4999
JournalApplied Sciences
Volume12
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 May 2022

Keywords

  • genetic algorithm
  • metro operation
  • optimisation
  • passenger flow

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