This study integrates seat inventory control for high speed railway passenger revenue management and flexible train formation scheme. In this problem, the train formation scheme is determined by booking demands of each origin–destination (O-D), and the rail operator wants to make the best seat allocation for each O–D train service of each fare class. This paper simultaneously makes optimal revenue management and train formation decisions. We formulate the problem with mixed integer programming with the objective of maximizing the total expected revenue subtracting operational cost, considering stochastic demand, then design a particle swarm optimization algorithm combing with linear programming to solve the formulation. Several simulation tests with different demand means and variances are offered to prove the validity and applicability of the model. The expected revenue of three fare classes performs the best in the numerical experiments.


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    Title :

    Collaborative Optimization of Stochastic Seat Allocation for Passenger Rail Transportation and Train Formation Scheme


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    18th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2018 ; Beijing, China


    Published in:

    CICTP 2018 ; 1056-1064


    Publication date :

    2018-07-02




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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