Passenger Transfer Efficiency Optimization Modelling Research with Simulations

An integrated optimization model is newly developed in this research to improve passenger transfer efficiency of an urban rail station by minimizing average waiting time of transfers in this station with rationalizing the arrival and departure time of trains in view of transfer passenger flows and their feeder services. Corresponding algorithm is also designed to search for the optimal solution to the objective function of the proposed model. A representative urban rail transfer station in Beijing is studied as example to validate the effect of transfer optimization with the new model. Comparative simulations confirm that the proposed model is able to effectively reduce the waiting time of each transfer in a station. This is significant for systematically improving the operation safety of an urban rail transfer station with faster evacuations of transfer passengers as well as substantially saving travel time of passengers making transfers in this station. (Received, processed and accepted by the Chinese Representative Office.)