Accurate forecasting of short-term passenger flow has been one of the most important issues in urban rail transit planning and operation. Considering the shortcomings of traditional forecasting methods, and in order to improve forecasting accuracy of passenger flow, this paper presents a wavelet neural network (WNN) for short-term passenger flow forecasting. One real urban rail transit station ...

Urban mass transit such as metro plays a significant role in transportation in metropolitan areas. Its most notable usage is the morning commute situation. It is known that such transit can be delayed due to congestion under excessive passenger demand. However, there are no tractable models of transit systems considering physics of its delay and congestion. It makes difficult to obtain realisti...

The place and performance of wireless sensor networks are rapidly improving in the automotive industry, industrial and environmental monitoring. Uptake of this technology can be used in urban rail vehicle management system. Due to the difficult and time-consuming maintenance of vehicle management, a remote automatic monitoring system is needed. In this paper, it is proposed to design, develop a...

This paper presents the problem of scheduling security teams to patrol a mass rapid transit rail network of a large urban city. The main objective of patrol scheduling is to deploy security teams to stations of the network at varying time periods subject to rostering as well as security-related constraints. We present several mathematical programming models for different Variants of this proble...

Recently, the number of studies involving complex network applications in transportation has increased steadily as scholars from various fields analyze traffic networks. Nonetheless, research on rail network growth is relatively rare. This research examines the evolution of the Public Urban Rail Transit Networks of Kuala Lumpur (PURTNoKL) based on complex network theory and covers both the topo...

This paper presents the problem of scheduling security teams to patrol a mass rapid transit rail network of a large urban city. The main objective of patrol scheduling is to deploy security teams to stations of the network at varying time periods subject to rostering as well as security-related constraints. We present several mathematical programming models for different variants of this proble...

This paper presents the problem of scheduling security teams to patrol a mass rapid transit rail network of a large urban city. The main objective of patrol scheduling is to deploy security teams to stations at varying time periods of the network subject to rostering as well as security-related constraints. We present a mathematical programming model for this problem. We then discuss the aspect...

With reduced environmental impact becoming an increasingly important benefit of the rail transportation mode, continual improvement in efficiency and reduced energy consumption has become a major concern to rail transit operators. For electrified rail transit operations, regenerative braking is one practical way for saving energy because it enables the kinetic energy of a train to be transmitte...

Financing behavior, based on the financing decision made by the owner of urban rail transit projects, will directly affect the capital cost of its operation and the construction schedule of the project. This paper intended to combine financing demand and financing options with the project construction schedule, quality and investment management, and based on DEMATEL methodology, to identify and...

The train derailment is one of the major accidents in rail transit safety system. The reach uses collision accident of rail transit train in Tokyo and Shanghai as the case. Firstly, it present fishbone diagram to qualitatively analysis main factors in derailment. Then it set up a derailment accident tree model with the qualitative and quantitative analysis of. The results show that illegal oper...