In order to analyze and evaluate the policy of women-only cars, this paper formulates an equilibrium problem as a complementary model for a many-to-one transit system. In this model, all of the commuters are assumed to have the same work-start time at their destination and the same unit time cost of being early or late. In-car crowding is measured by the density of commuters inside a car with the similar crowding level bringing higher crowding cost to female commuters as compared with male commuters. Existence of equilibrium is proved by converting a complementary model into an equivalent variational inequalities (VI) problem. Finally, a numerical example finds that the ratio of women-only cars can greatly influence the travel costs of all commuters. With a new objective function of social welfare loss, women-only cars can be regarded as an effective policy to improve the travel welfare loss on a transit system.


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    Title :

    Formulation and Numerical Analysis of Commuting Equilibrium on Transit System with Women-Only Cars


    Contributors:
    Liu, Peng (author) / Tian, Qiong (author) / Huang, Hai-Jun (author)

    Conference:

    15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2015 ; Beijing, China


    Published in:

    CICTP 2015 ; 3715-3726


    Publication date :

    2015-07-13




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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