To alleviate peak-hour congestion in urban rail transit, this study proposes a new off-peak fare discount strategy to incentivize passengers to shift their departure time from peak to off-peak hours. Firstly, a questionnaire survey of Shanghai metro passengers is conducted to analyze their willingness to change departure time under different fare strategies. Secondly, based on the survey results, a time-differentiated fare discount model is constructed, considering both the company’s revenue and passengers’ travel benefits, and with the optimization objective of achieving balanced peak-hour and off-peak-hour train loads throughout the day. Subsequently, a genetic algorithm with nested fmincon functions is designed and combined with the actual data of Shanghai rail transit line 9 for arithmetic analysis. Finally, the effectiveness of the model is validated using the survey data. The research results show that the off-peak fare discount strategy can incentivize 6.88% of passengers traveling in the morning peak and 6.66% of passengers traveling in the evening peak to shift to off-peak travel. This research provides theoretical support and decision-making guidance for implementing time-differentiated pricing in urban rail transit systems.


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    Title :

    Research on Time-Based Fare Discount Strategy for Urban Rail Transit Peak Congestion


    Additional title:

    Urban Rail Transit


    Contributors:
    Ding, Xiaobing (author) / Hong, Chen (author) / Wu, Jinlong (author) / Zhao, Lu (author) / Shi, Gan (author) / Liu, Zhigang (author) / Hong, Haoyang (author) / Zhao, Zhengyuan (author)

    Published in:

    Urban Rail Transit ; 9 , 4 ; 352-367


    Publication date :

    2023-12-01


    Size :

    16 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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