A Feeder-Bus Dispatch Planning Model for Emergency Evacuation in Urban Rail Transit Corridors

As an important part of urban public transportation systems, the feeder bus fills a service gap left by rail transit, effectively extending the range of rail transit’s service and solving the problem of short-distance travel and interchanges. By defining the potential demand of feeder bus services and considering its relationship with the traffic demands of corresponding staging areas, the distance between road and rail transit, and the repetition factor of road bus lines, this paper established a potential demand model of roads by opening feeder bus services and applying a logit model for passenger flow distribution. Based on a circular route model, a route starting and ending at urban rail transit stations was generated, and a genetic algorithm was then applied to solve it. The Wei-Fang community of Shanghai was selected as the test area. Per the model and algorithm, the feeder route length was conformed to a functional orientation of short-distance travel and the feeder service of a feeder bus; the route mostly covered where conventional bus lines were fewer, which is a finding that is in agreement with the actual situation; the feasibility of the model and algorithm was verified.

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Study of the Bus Dynamic Coscheduling Optimization Method under Urban Rail Transit Line Emergency

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience ◽

10.1155/2014/174369 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yun Wang ◽

Xuedong Yan ◽

Yu Zhou ◽

Jiaxi Wang ◽

Shasha Chen

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Solution Process ◽

Optimization Method ◽

Emergency Evacuation ◽

Negative Influence ◽

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Evacuation Time ◽

Passenger Safety ◽

Urban Rail

As one of the most important urban commuter transportation modes, urban rail transit (URT) has been acting as a key solution for supporting mobility needs in high-density urban areas. However, in recent years, high frequency of unexpected events has caused serious service disruptions in URT system, greatly harming passenger safety and resulting in severe traffic delays. Therefore, there is an urgent need to study emergency evacuation problem in URT. In this paper, a method of bus dynamic coscheduling is proposed and two models are built based on different evacuation destinations including URT stations and surrounding bus parking spots. A dynamic coscheduling scheme for buses can be obtained by the models. In the model solution process, a new concept—the equivalent parking spot—is proposed to transform the nonlinear model into an integer linear programming (ILP) problem. A case study is conducted to verify the feasibility of models. Also, sensitivity analysis of two vital factors is carried out to analyze their effects on the total evacuation time. The results reveal that the designed capacity of buses has a negative influence on the total evacuation time, while an increase in the number of passengers has a positive effect. Finally, some significant optimizing strategies are proposed.

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Improved Huff Model for Estimating Urban Rail Transit Station Catchment Areas considering Station Choices

Journal of Advanced Transportation ◽

10.1155/2021/6374724 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Zhenjun Zhu ◽

Yudong He ◽

Xiucheng Guo ◽

Yibang Zhang ◽

Junlan Chen

Keyword(s):

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Transit Oriented Development ◽

Urban Rail ◽

Catchment Areas ◽

Feeder Bus ◽

Transit Station ◽

Bus Services ◽

Additive Form

Estimating urban rail transit station catchment areas is of great significance to deepening our understanding of Transit-Oriented Development in Chinese megacities. This study investigated station choices of residents and considered that residents may not only pay attention to the proximity to stations when the URT system develops into a relatively mature network. An improved Huff model was proposed to calculate the probability of residents’ station choice, which considered the station attractiveness. The station attractiveness is measured by three variables: walk score, public transport accessibility level, and service and facility index. The additive form based on multicriteria decision is adopted to incorporate experts’ opinions on the importance of three variables. In this study, extended catchment areas that can be accessed by cycling and feeder bus services are adopted to replace the conventional pedestrian-oriented catchment areas. A case study of Xi’an, China, was used to validate the applicability of the proposed methodology. The results revealed that the methodology effectively solved the problem. The findings could be used as a reference and provide technical support to policymakers and city planners with regard to the transport facilities configuration for URT station catchment areas, which contributes to facilitating transit-oriented development.

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Research of emergency feeder bus scheme for urban rail transit under unexpected incident

IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering ◽

10.1088/1757-899x/688/4/044040 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 688 ◽

pp. 044040

Author(s):

Jiarui Liu ◽

Xianyu Wu

Keyword(s):

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Urban Rail ◽

Feeder Bus

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Study on emergency evacuation strategies for unexpected large passenger flow in urban rail transit station

Material Science and Engineering ◽

10.1201/b21118-141 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 665-669 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Q Ye ◽

Y Lv

Keyword(s):

Emergency Evacuation ◽

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Passenger Flow ◽

Urban Rail ◽

Transit Station

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Reliability Measurement and Evaluation of Pedestrian Facilities for Emergency Evacuation in Urban Rail Transit Terminal

ICTIS 2011 ◽

10.1061/41177(415)285 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Li-li Yang ◽

Hong-fei Jia ◽

Zhi-cai Juan

Keyword(s):

Emergency Evacuation ◽

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Urban Rail ◽

Measurement And Evaluation ◽

Reliability Measurement

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Compensation Decisions on Disruption Recovery Service in Urban Rail Transit

PROMET - Traffic&Transportation ◽

10.7307/ptt.v31i4.2985 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 367-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Zhijie Yang ◽

Xiaolong Chen

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Stackelberg Game ◽

Emergency Evacuation ◽

Urban Rail Transit ◽

Rail Transit ◽

Game Model ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Service Supply Chain ◽

Urban Rail ◽

Attractive Option

Ride-hailing, in addition to a common mode of daily transportation, is an attractive option for evacuating stranded passengers and supplementing bus bridging in the early stages of an urban rail transit (URT) disruption. This paper proposes a service supply chain comprised of ride-hailing vehicles, ride-hailing platforms, and stranded passengers wherein the URT and ride-hailing chain together provide emergency evacuation services. The emergency evacuation service supply chain can be coordinated under an effort-based revenue sharing contract. A URT-dominated Stackelberg game model between the URT and ride-hailing platform is then formulated to optimize compensation decisions on the part of the URT; numerical analysis reveals critical factors affecting the said decisions. The main contributions of this paper are two-fold: first, it provides new information regarding collaboration between URT operators and ride-hailing platforms for stranded passenger evacuation, including a ride-hailing platform pricing strategy; and second, the URT compensation decision process is solved via Stackelberg game model while revealing an incentive coefficient parameter for the URT decision and solver.

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