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Cleon, Louis-Marie, and Guido Lauriks. "Evaluation of Passenger Comfort in Railway Vehicles." Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control 15, no. 2 (June 1996): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026309239601500201.
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The evaluation of passenger comfort in railway vehicles is very important in railcar development. This article describes the experimental approach undertaken by the International Union of Railways to establish a method for the evaluation of passenger comfort in railway vehicles which has been validated on 800 ordinary passengers.
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Margaret Divya, A., and Nandhini Devi. "A Study on Passengers Satisfaction towards Indian Railway Services (With Special Reference to Madurai City)." Shanlax International Journal of Management 8, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/management.v8i2.3336.
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India is one of the largest countries in terms of geographical size, which requires efficient means for long-distance transportation. Public transport, being the primary mode of transport, remains a powerful yardstick to measure the overall development of a nation. Among the various modes of transport, Railways are one of the biggest modes of passenger transport in the world. The Railway passenger services face long term competitive threats from airlines, luxury buses, personalized transport, and improved public transport. To compete with other modes of transport, it is inevitable for railways to accelerate the growth of passenger’s origination. It is essential for the railway authorities to know the opinion of the passengers regarding the services offered to them to make future policies and provisions. Having this drive in mind, the researchers have undertaken a study about the services provided by the Indian Railways along with its objectives to analyze the passengers’ preferences, satisfaction, limitations, and perceptions towards the same. Every aspect related to railway services like ticket availability, quality of travel, employee behavior, safety, timing, and other relevant aspects is analyzed at different levels of the research. As passenger satisfaction is chosen to be the concept for this research, elements that allow passengers to feel satisfied with offered services are also mentioned in the theoretical part. The scope of this project is limited to passengers of Madurai city.
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Wang, Bin, Shaoquan Ni, Fucai Jin, and Zixu Huang. "An Optimization Method of Multiclass Price Railway Passenger Transport Ticket Allocation under High Passenger Demand." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2020 (September 15, 2020): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8860115.
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The development of high-speed railways (HSR) in China has attracted a large number of passengers from highway and aviation to railways due to their comfort and high speed. In this case, HSR passenger transportation can improve the operating income by optimizing the ticket allocation. Here, we propose an optimization method of multiclass price railway passenger transport ticket allocation under high passenger demand. First, for the “censored data” problem in the railway passenger demand forecast, we constructed an unconstrained model of railway passenger demand and solved the unconstrained demand through an expectation-maximization algorithm. Then, on this basis, we use gray neural networks (GNNs) to predict the passenger demand of different origins and destinations (ODs), and according to the prediction results, we propose two ticket allocation methods based on operation and capacity control: accurate predivided model and fuzzy predivided model. And we solve this problem by constructing a particle swarm optimization algorithm. Lastly, we use examples to prove that the proposed ticket allocation method can meet the passengers’ needs and have good economic benefits.
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Dou, Fei, Kai Yan, Yakun Huang, Li Wang, and Limin Jia. "Optimal Path Choice in Railway Passenger Travel Network Based on Residual Train Capacity." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/153949.
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Passenger’s optimal path choice is one of the prominent research topics in the field of railway passenger transport organization. More and more different train types are available, increasing path choices from departure to destination for travelers are unstoppable. However, travelers cannot avoid being confused when they hope to choose a perfect travel plan based on various travel time and cost constraints before departure. In this study, railway passenger travel network is constructed based on train timetable. Both the generalized cost function we developed and the residual train capacity are considered to be the foundation of path searching procedure. The railway passenger travel network topology is analyzed based on residual train capacity. Considering the total travel time, the total travel cost, and the total number of passengers, we propose an optimal path searching algorithm based on residual train capacity in railway passenger travel network. Finally, the rationale of the railway passenger travel network and the optimal path generation algorithm are verified positively by case study.
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Butkevičius, Jonas. "THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW CARRIAGE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE LITHUANIAN RAILWAY TRANSPORT AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROSPECTIVE MARKETS FOR RAILWAY AND ROAD TRANSPORT." TRANSPORT 18, no. 4 (June 30, 2003): 168–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/16483840.2003.10414090.
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This article provides the analysis of the possibilities to instal new technologies in the Lithuanian railways the building of a high speed railway line I in Kreta corridor. It is advisable to project this line as a mixed one, i.e. intended for both passenger and goods traffic. The research carried out by the author has shown that light transport dominates in passenger transportation among four cities of Lithuania Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda and Siauliai, which transports even 81,3% of direct passengers. Buses carry 14,9% and only 3,8 % of passengers are carried by railway transport. Therefore the main problem public transport is facing is to“get the passengers back” from light transport means, i.e. cars. The prospective railway and road transport markets in local, intercity and international passengers' transportations are also established in this work.
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Kriswardhana, Willy, Nunung Nuring Hayati, and Desy R. Septiana. "Passenger satisfaction with railway station service quality: An Ordinal Logistic Regression approach." MATEC Web of Conferences 181 (2018): 07001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201818107001.
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The objective of this paper is to examine the service quality dimensions and passenger characteristics and its effect on passenger’s satisfaction on railway station. Jember Railway Station is a survey location where the questionnaires were spread. A total of 400 respondents who departure from Jember Railway Station were selected via convenience sampling method. The effects of characteristics and service quality items on the overall satisfaction were estimated using probabilistic approach. The thirteen service items extracted from Guidelines for Standardization of Railway Stations provide a representative framework of how passengers evaluate railway station service quality. This study illustrates how the probabilistic approach may be used for the direction of the effects of service quality and passengers’ characteristics on the probability that a passenger presents higher level of overall satisfaction. Direction for future research is presented.
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Zou, Yu Ting, and Lei Nie. "Research on Passenger's Choice Behavior Based on Beijing-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway Ticket Data." Applied Mechanics and Materials 505-506 (January 2014): 601–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.505-506.601.
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This paper has analyzed passenger flows' characteristics of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway based on the ticket data of 2013 January, including passengers' distribution on the ranges of trip distance and passengers' composition in each range. Furthermore, it concentrated on analyzing preferences on passenger's choice behavior among the passengers of different OD pairs and the difference between weekday and weekend on passenger's behavior. The result shows short journey passenger had lower sensitivities on ticket price and travel speed, the selection of passengers from low-level node to high-level node on departure time had obvious clustering effect. With the increase of trip distance, the sensitivities of passengers on ticket price, travel speed and originating train would increase correspondingly. The paper's conclusion has referential meaning for researches on the optimization of high-speed railway transport organization.
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Martseniuk, Larysa, Oleksandra Kokitko, and Diana Savchenko. "Economic security in railway transport as an effective component of stable development of railway transport." Naukovyy Visnyk Dnipropetrovs'kogo Derzhavnogo Universytetu Vnutrishnikh Sprav 1, no. 1 (March 29, 2021): 307–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31733/2078-3566-2021-1-307-315.
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The competitiveness of an enterprise in comparison with other entities working with it in the same plane has a significant impact on the results of its activities, including profit. If we talk about railway transport, in the field of providing passenger transportation within the country, then road transport has become a close and fairly significant competitor of railway transport, because the availability of cars to an ordinary citizen, an extensive network of bus routes, competitive cost and speed of delivery of a passenger from point A to point B by road vehicles have significantly weakened the place of rail transport in the passenger transportation market. The following factors negatively influence the volume of passenger transportation by rail in Ukraine: ineffective reforms, their obsolescence and protraction, ineffective industry management system, outdated financial model and tariff setting system. Ensuring a stable, profitable operation of a transport organization by identifying and meeting the needs of passengers to the maximum is the main goal of marketing in the field of passenger transportation. The current tough market conditions for the implementation of financial and economic activities in the field of railway transportation require a change in the policy of using the labor potential of Ukrzaliznytsia in order to increase its financial potential. In the article, the authors, in order to increase the competitiveness of railway transport, note not only on a thorough and large-scale renovation and reconstruction of railway transport infrastructure and rolling stock (with the help of public and private funding), but also the need to determine the needs of the passenger, his hopes and expectations from railway travel (for this it is proposed to create an appropriate marketing service in the structure of the railways, conduct regular surveys of passengers, etc.). The authors consider an increase in the motivation for high-quality performance of official duties by railroad employees as one of the important areas of increasing the competitiveness of rail passenger transportation, because it is they who come into direct contact with passengers and significantly affect the general impression of the passenger from the trip.
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Gupta, Saumya, Jaspreet Singh Sandhu, Vikas Deep, and Purushottam Sharma. "Aadhar Card Based Double Identity Verification System for Railway." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.31 (August 24, 2018): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.31.18238.
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“The reservation system of the Indian Railways is an enormous database system dealing with about millions of passengers everyday. Many of these passengers travel with a reservation however a lot more travel with unreserved tickets. In this measureless system, it is an extraordinary task to competently handle this data, which is the basic demand of the management. The problems with the existing scenario are Corruption, User Authentication Security Issues, Over population, Inefficient Railway Management. This paper presents an approach to tackle these problems in a much efficient manner. In case of Indian Railways, detailed passenger data is handled for reservations and in order to provide fast and efficient services, the data has to be processed and verified at a fast pace. For the Indian railways, enhancing the existent system with ADHAAR Card Identification will reduce manual intervention to a great extent. Also the verification of the passengers would be comprehensive and safe. The ADHAAR Card Based railway System will handle the passenger data more effectively and easily”.
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Michniak, Daniel. "Role of Railway Transport in Tourism: Selected Problems and Examples in Slovakia." Quaestiones Geographicae 35, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 107–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2016-0039.
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AbstractTransport is a very important part of activities in the tourism sector. In addition to the transport of tourists to and within a destination, transport itself can be a tourist attraction. The aim of this paper is to analyse selected problems of railways in Slovakia (a decrease in the importance of railways for passenger transport in Slovakia in the past 20 years, discontinued passenger transport on certain railway tracks and the modernisation of other tracks, and zero-fare public rail transport services for certain categories of passengers), and to present good examples of the use of narrow-gauge railways for the purposes of tourism (the Tatra Electric Railways and the Kysuce-Orava Forest Railway).
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Guo, Haiyang, Yun Bai, Qianyun Hu, Huangrui Zhuang, and Xujie Feng. "Optimization on metro timetable considering train capacity and passenger demand from intercity railways." Smart and Resilient Transport 3, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srt-06-2020-0004.
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Purpose To evacuate passengers arriving at intercity railway stations efficiently, metros and intercity railways usually share the same station or have stations close to each other. When intercity trains arrive intensively, a great number of passengers will burst into the metro station connecting with the intercity railway station within a short period, while the number of passengers will decrease substantially when intercity trains arrive sparsely. The metro timetables with regular headway currently adopted in real-world operations cannot handle the injected passenger demand properly. Timetable optimization of metro lines connecting with intercity railway stations is essential to improve service quality. Design/methodology/approach Based on arrival times of intercity trains and the entire process for passengers transferring from railway to metro, this paper develops a mathematical model to characterize the time-varying demand of passengers arriving at the platform of a metro station connecting with an intercity railway station. Provided the time-varying passenger demand and capacity of metro trains, a timetable model to optimize train departure time of a bi-direction metro line where an intermediate station connects with an intercity railway station is proposed. The objective is to minimize waiting time of passengers at the connecting station. The proposed timetable model is solved by an adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm. Findings Real-world case studies show that the prediction accuracy of the proposed model on passenger demand at the connecting station is higher than 90%, and the timetable model can reduce waiting time of passengers at the connecting station by 28.47% which is increased by 5% approximately than the calculation results of the generic algorithm. Originality/value This paper puts forward a model to predict the number of passengers arriving at the platform of connection stations via analyzing the entire process for passengers transferring from intercity trains to metros. Also, a timetable optimization model aiming at minimizing passenger waiting time of a metro line where an intermediate station is connected to an intercity railway station is proposed.
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Knežević, Mirjana. "Passenger transport: The challenges in the modern world." Ekonomika 67, no. 2 (2021): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/ekonomika2102023k.
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In this paper, the author examines the domestic and international legal framework for the contract of carriage of passengers and its presence in different transport modes and offers a response to the current challenges. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the international and domestic regulations and present the rights and obligations of contracting parties in order to facilitate its application in the emerging practice. The author recognizes passenger transport as a field full of modern challenges caused by novel, still under-researched risks to passengers' health. Special attention is paid to the contract of passenger carriage by rail. The advantages of this transport mode are examined, the obligations of railway carriers and passengers are presented, while the obligation of the railway carrier to accept transporting any interested person if they have vacancies is underlined. The analysis focuses on the significance of the contract of passenger transport in the modern environment where risks to passengers' healthcare present. The author recognizes passenger transport by rail as a convenient and perspective branch of passenger transport for both international and domestic passenger transport. This sort of passenger transport already has the potential to respond to the challenges of preserving and strengthening the protection of passenger's rights, above all the right to safe and secure transportation.
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Pokusaev, O. N., A. E. Chekmarev, and V. S. Evseev. "On the Issue of Assigning Additional Stops for Long-Distance Passenger Trains within the Boundaries of the City of Moscow." World of Transport and Transportation 18, no. 2 (December 18, 2020): 172–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2020-18-172-197.
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In many world’s most populous cities, railways are an integral part of urban transport systems. Commuter and intraurban passenger railway traffic is often and widely considered in this context. On the other hand, the constant growth in passenger traffic of longdistance trains, traditionally gravitating towards railway stations and adjacent urban transport hubs, including metro stations through which arriving passengers pass towards their final destinations in the city, requires search for new solutions to improve comfort of the trip for passengers, and to remove the excess load from the urban transit system. Considering the experience and features of organization of long-distance passenger railway traffic in various countries, the authors based on previous research suggests certain solutions regarding Moscow railway hub. To organize comfortable environment for passengers of all categories of trains, it is advisable to develop a balanced technology of train traffic within the Moscow junction, excluding overloading of individual elements of the transport system (in particular, of rail stations in the city center). The objective of the article is to analyze global experience in organizing traffic of long-distance passenger trains within the boundaries of large agglomerations and to develop proposals to organize additional stopping points for long-distance trains in various districts of Moscow, which will help reduce the load on central transport and interchange hubs, improve quality of transportation services for passengers, and develop the districts of Moscow and Moscow region adjacent to the new TIHs.
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Tian, Zhiqiang, Guofeng Sun, Dingjun Chen, Zhicheng Qiu, and Yawen Ma. "Method for Determining the Valid Travel Route of Railways Based on Generalised Cost under the Syncretic Railway Network." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2020 (January 11, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8287648.
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Travel route options for passengers can provide data support for railway line planning, passenger flow organisation, and train operation establishment. A critical review of the literature indicates that previous studies mainly focused on choices offered by a single railway network path without much consideration of China’s normal-speed and high-speed integrated railway network and the effect of train timetable on passengers’ travel choice. In this study, a method based on generalised cost is proposed to discover the valid routes of passenger travel in the integrated network of China’s normal-speed and high-speed railways. After quantifying the effects of train fare, travel time, transfer, travel convenience, comfort, and other factors on the generalised expenses of passengers, this study presents a generalised cost determination method when individuals select an option from different seats of different trains of specific railway transport products. Theoretically, the valid routes considering the train schedule is defined, and a valid route search algorithm is designed using the deep traversal idea in a new valid route searching network. Considering the Lanzhou-Beijing passenger travel routes as an example, this study verifies the practicability of the generalised cost calculation method, as well as that of the valid routes search method.
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Hu, Si Tao, and Xue Mei Wang. "Highway Passenger Transport Development Strategy with the Competition of High-Speed Railway." Applied Mechanics and Materials 94-96 (September 2011): 527–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.94-96.527.
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With the rapid development of high-speed passenger railway and inter-city railway, highway passenger transport is facing an unprecedented competition and pressure. The impact of high-speed railway on highway passenger transport has been analysis and the transport characteristics of high-speed railway are compared with the highways’. On the basis of the travel choice behavior of passengers analysis, the systematized countermeasures of highway passenger transport are put forward including precise orientation, strengthen marketing enhancement, technical support, resource integration, brand service and government help.
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Huang, Le, Yong Bo Lv, and Yuan Ren. "Study on the Assembling Regularity of Passengers at Large-Scale Railway Station." Applied Mechanics and Materials 253-255 (December 2012): 1231–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.253-255.1231.
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This paper based on the surveys of Beijing West Railway Station, Guangzhou Railway station, Xi'an Railway Station, Zhengzhou Railway Station, Jinan Railway station and Shangqiu Railway station. Looking over the tickets of passengers and recording the time when they enter into the stations, a waiting time model is established on the basis of logarithmic normal distribution theory. The number of passengers assembling in a station is found after the logarithmic normal distribution model is used to deal with the rule of passenger arriving and the uniform moving law is applied in passenger departing.
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Sohail, Muhammad Tayyab, Sana Ullah, Muhammad Tariq Majeed, and Ahmed Usman. "Pakistan management of green transportation and environmental pollution: a nonlinear ARDL analysis." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, no. 23 (February 6, 2021): 29046–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-12654-x.
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AbstractModern advances in nonlinear modeling have exposed that nonlinear models yield more robust results compared with linear models. Research on the effect of air-railway transportation on environmental pollution has now arrived into a new way of asymmetry analysis and captured the real issue among the nexus. This study aims to inspect the asymmetric impact of air-railway transportation on environmental pollution in Pakistan by using annual time series data from 1991 to 2019. The findings show that positive shock in air passenger carried and railway passenger carried increases carbon emissions, which implies that 1% increase in air passenger carried (railway passenger carried) enhances environmental pollution by 0.21% (0.32%) in long run in Pakistan. While positive shock in railway passengers carried increases environmental pollution and negative shock in railway passengers carried decreases the environmental pollution in the short run. The outcomes have also confirmed the short- and long-run asymmetries in Wald statistics. The findings are country-specific and it would be regionally specific.
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Symes, Colin. "Checks and Balances: The Semiotics of Ticketing on Victorian Railways, During the 1930s and 1940s." Space and Culture 21, no. 4 (January 1, 2018): 469–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1206331217749762.
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As well as transforming the way terrestrial space was traversed, railways spearheaded texts that enabled passenger traversal of such spaces to be regulated and monitored. Among the most important of these texts was the railway ticket, which as a pre-electronic information storage device, was capable of encoding through semiotic inscription, details of a passenger’s spatial entitlements, both on and off a train. Yet curiously these facets of the ticket have not hitherto been the subjects of analysis. Through analysing the railway ticketing system of Australia’s Victorian Railways during the 1930s and 1940s and the manuals that regulated the choreography of ticket inspection and the associated performances of passengers, this article redresses this oversight. Using Foucaultian and semiotic concepts, it argues that the railways tickets of the past, like their contemporary counterparts, provide convenient and portable mechanisms for gate-keeping and calibrating mobile populations.
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Corman, Francesco. "Interactions and Equilibrium Between Rescheduling Train Traffic and Routing Passengers in Microscopic Delay Management: A Game Theoretical Study." Transportation Science 54, no. 3 (May 2020): 785–822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2020.0979.
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In the last decade, optimization models for railway traffic rescheduling mostly focused on incorporating an increasing detail of the infrastructure, with the goal of proving feasibility and quality from the point of view of the managers of the infrastructure (tracks and stations). Different approaches that manage only the passenger flows instead focus more explicitly on the quality of service perceived by the passengers. This paper investigates microscopic railway traffic optimization models and algorithms, merging these two streams of research. In particular, we analyze the characterization of an equilibrium point between the reordering choices of train dispatchers in railway traffic optimization and the route choice of passengers in the available services of the railway transport network. We describe how passenger choice at stations along the route intertwines deeply with the problem of rescheduling trains over tracks and station resources in a very complicated setting that might not exhibit equilibrium points in general. Delaying trains and/or dropping passenger connections and/or giving particular route advice to passengers might influence the behavior of traffic controllers and passengers, determining a trade-off between the delays of trains, weighted by the passenger load, and the travel time of passengers. We study this problem with a game theoretical approach, focusing on the solutions corresponding to Nash equilibria of a game involving passengers and infrastructure managers. The proposed game theoretical approach is able to easily consider information and interdependence of the actions of multiple stakeholders. Computational results based on a real-world Dutch railway network quantify the trade-off between the minimization of train delays and passenger travel times and the performance, stability, and convergence of the equilibrium point given different algorithms and information available. The final aim of this work is to study the impact of effective implementations of railway traffic management and dissemination of information to passengers and operators.
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Das, Amsori M. "Persamaan Struktur Loyalty Modelling Pengguna Public Transport Railway MRT- SBK Greaters Kuala Lumpur Malaysia." Jurnal Ilmiah Universitas Batanghari Jambi 20, no. 3 (October 1, 2020): 895. http://dx.doi.org/10.33087/jiubj.v20i3.1078.
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In the context of transportation, the passenger loyalty is a measurement of the level of passenger’s willingness to use a similar public transport. The goal of this study is to examines and identifies factors that influencing passenger loyalty. Three factors such as satisfaction, service value, services quality was predicted as an influential factor towards passengers’ loyalty. The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) for Sungai Buloh to Kajang (SBK) line in Kuala Lumpur conurbation was used as a case study and 555 respondents have contributed to this study. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to investigate the relationship between service quality, service value, passenger satisfaction and passenger loyalty. Satisfaction has the most significant influence on passenger loyalty. Service value has direct and positive effects on passenger loyalty. This study also found the service quality has significant indirect effect on the passenger loyalty via service value and passenger satisfaction.The structural model for investigating the loyalty of MRT-SBK users to this service has been analysed and tested using the service quality, satisfaction and quality value showed 75% positive change for all variables. These models recorded average errors and absolute index evaluation in accepted criteria of ≤ 0.09 and ≥ 0.94 respectively. The study reveals that MRT-SBK passengers’ loyalty is significantly influenced by service attributes, such as vehicle safety, convenience, punctuality, comfort, cleanliness of the facility provided. This study helps MRT service provider to optimize resource to enhance user’s satisfaction and therefore, increase the passenger loyalty
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Lo, Lok Pan, Marin Marinov, and Bernhard Rüger. "A Qualitative Study on Providing Alternative Solutions for Handling the HSR Passenger’s Luggage." Urban Rail Transit 7, no. 1 (January 16, 2021): 12–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40864-020-00139-y.
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AbstractThe objective of this paper is to look at the problem of high-speed rail (HSR) passengers’ luggage and provide alternative solutions to improve luggage handling. A qualitative study is carried out to assess the current state of HSR practices, analyse existing issues with HSR passenger luggage and provide alternative solutions, including modification of the passenger unit, double-deck rolling stock, an additional train for transporting luggage, and repositioning of passenger seats. Four solutions are discussed that could solve the problem of HSR passenger luggage handling and evaluated from four aspects namely passengers, railway operator, cost and passenger comfort level. The solution of additional trains for transporting luggage may be the preferred solution when compared with other options, without compromising the comfort of the passengers or the profit of the railway company.
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Vojtek, Martin, Martin Kendra, and Jaromír Široký. "Railways as a Key Part of Integrated Transport Systems." Transport technic and technology 15, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ttt-2019-0003.
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Abstract Integrated passenger transport system consists of many factors with various impacts on the entire system quality. In passenger transport, there are mostly individual passengers therefore it is difficult to determine all transport requirements. In the passenger transport system, there are several modes of transport, but passengers mostly use road and rail transport. Passenger transport system is influenced by many qualitative factors with various impacts. The paper is focused on analysis of the role of railways in integrated passenger transport systems. The analysis is from passenger point of view because the key element in railway passenger transport is the passenger (customer), who requires the transport from one place to another. A basic precondition for accomplishing the main requirement (transport), is making the complete offer which provides not only transport, but also other complementary services. There are several types of passenger trains, which jointly create a part of integrated transport system. Quality of this transport system depends on train route topology, timetable of trains, number and location of all stations and stops. Primary function of the transport system is providing transport for passengers on regional, national-interregional and international level; therefore, the analysis involves these levels.
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Zhang, Bing Chen, Wei Min Guo, and Yan Qun Wang. "Research on Harmony of Interior System of Railway Passenger Cars." Applied Mechanics and Materials 44-47 (December 2010): 1554–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.44-47.1554.
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The development of interior design is an important aspect of improving the quality of railway transportation services. The interior design system of the railway passenger cars may do better in reflecting the interrelations among the passengers, the facilities and the environment of the compartments with the harmony idea to considerate relationship between the passengers, the facilities and the environment. In this way, we may have the optimized performance of the interior system and improve the interior system design of the railway passenger car effectively.
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Gan, Tian Tian, Ke Qi Wu, and Ji Meng Tang. "Research on Social Profitability Threshold of China Intercity Railway Based on Passenger Demand." Applied Mechanics and Materials 590 (June 2014): 901–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.590.901.
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The paper discussed the minimum level of passenger demand which could make intercity railway project social profitability in China. The analysis of the costs and benefits linked to other alternative transport modes has been taken into account. The results show that the intercity railway studied is socially profitable with a demand of 4.07 million passengers and a social discount rate of 7%, and the conclusion also applies to other intercity railways in China with similar line conditions and regional economic level.
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Fojcik, Edward. "Railway in the Upper Silesia Coal Basin conurbation. It is time for the underground." Transportation Overview - Przeglad Komunikacyjny 2016, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.35117/a_eng_16_01_02.
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Opportunities for a railway network to be used in present and prospective passenger transports in Upper Silesian and Coal Basin conurbation. PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A. intensions in the scope of modernization and reconstruction of railway network in the conurbation, for the purpose of functional regional and long-distance passenger transport systems’ evolution. Technical and organizational conditions to separate rail passenger services from cargo transportation in the conurbation, furthermore, separating regional and long-distance rail traffic in the passenger transport. Reasons to build new railway lines connecting the conurbation center and Katowice-Pyrzowice International Airport. Courses of action for the undergrounds’ process of planning at each stage in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin conurbation center, as well as regional railway lines for a local transport and a high – speed railway for a long- distance passengers’ domestic and international transport.
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‘Ranjan’, Rajeev Kumar, Nitin Thapar, Shoaib Alam Siddiqui, and Arun Kant Painoli. "Assessing the Service Quality Attributes Affecting the Satisfaction of the Northern Railway Passengers: An Empirical Study." Journal of New Business Ventures 1, no. 1-2 (June 2020): 110–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2632962x20961052.
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The present study aims to assess the intangible attributes of the service that have an impact on customer satisfaction. The Intangible attributes attached to the service, are difficult to determine. The Indian Railway network is one of the largest railway networks in the world. It is spread over 115,000 km having 21,617 passenger trains carrying 23 million passengers every day. In terms of revenue generation, it is a major contributor to the Indian economy but even then, the service level is very poor as compared to the other parts of the world. Due to increased competition in the modes of transportation, the Service attributes of Indian Railway acts as a strong influencer on Passenger Satisfaction. Indian Railways has a huge potential in terms of economic benefits if their service quality is improved. Various studies have tried to identify the important attributes regarding the Service Quality of Indian Railway. The SERVQUAL model provided important insights into the service attributes. The study attempts to identify the gap that exists in the service level, that is, service offered by the Indian Railway and expectation of the customers. In the study, only internal aspects like facilities (attributes) which make the journey comfortable and the absence of these attributes makes the passengers’ journey uncomfortable are included. The result indicates that there exists a considerable gap in Reliability and Assurance dimensions of Railway service quality and the most important factors determining satisfaction of passengers are basic facilities, safety and security, cleanliness and employee behaviour towards passengers.
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Vojtek, Martin, Tomas Skrucany, Martin Kendra, and Jan Ponicky. "Methodology for calculation of minimum transfer time in the transport hub." MATEC Web of Conferences 235 (2018): 00015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201823500015.
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The most important element in railway passenger transport is a customer – traveller, who requires the transport from one place to another. A basic precondition for accomplishing the main requirement – transport, is making the complete offer which provides not only transport, but also other associated services. Practically, there are many associated criteria of transport, for example safety, duration, price, reliability, comfort and complementary services. Passenger transport is generally considered as an activity, which arises as the consequence of spatial division of places, where people are in exact time and their need to move. Motivators for moving could be commuting – job or education, dealing with personal or working matters, travelling for vacation – hiking, sport, health, cultural and social facilities, visiting relatives and friends. Requirements for transport of passengers originate in the need to move, while the passenger transport is dependent on the willingness of travelling. In passenger transport, there are mostly individual passengers, so it is difficult to determine all transport requirements. The paper is focused on one of the key factors of passenger transportation - connectivity of trains. Connectivity of passenger trains and other means of transport can be distinguished also from temporal and spatial point of view. Temporal connectivity is such sequence of arrivals and departures of different passenger trains and other means of transport, which allows changing the different passenger vehicles easily in regard to necessary time. Spatial connectivity means the distance between two passenger vehicles, among which the passenger is moving. In the paper, there is described the general methodology for calculation of minimum transfer time in the railway station. Railway passenger station is some kind of transport hub – a starting and finishing point for flows of passengers. Passengers have the opportunity to change the train type from long-haul train to regional train or contrariwise or simply enter or leave the system of railway transport. In the methodology, all necessary aspects are taken into account.
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Ma, Ning, Li Na Xu, Fei Fei Xie, and Xue Mei Li. "Reduction of the Influential Factors of Railway Passenger Demand Based on Rough Set." Applied Mechanics and Materials 58-60 (June 2011): 112–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.58-60.112.
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In the background of the development of global low-carbon economy, to blossom the low-carbon transport is necessary for every country. Railway is recognized as a green transport with low-power consumption, less pollution, which is one of the most important infrastructures developed actively around the world. With the approaching era of high-speed railway, railway passenger demand has been paid much more attention. As passengers with different trip purposes are influenced by different factors when choosing means of transport, this paper will classify passengers by trip purposes and find the main influential factors according to different types of passengers with the aid of rough set. Then put forward initiatives aimed at improving passenger satisfaction, and enhance the positive attitude of passengers towards rail transportation.
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Čamaj, Juraj, Štefan Čarný, and Adrián Šperka. "Regression Models for Determining Dependencies on Various Factors on the Railway Line Zohor – Záhorská Ves." Transport technic and technology 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ttt-2020-0008.
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AbstractPublic passenger transport is presented as an opportunity to achieve future goals for establishing sustainable transportation systems. These systems are demanded from every member country of the EU for securing an ecologically friendly, fast, and reliable way of traveling in regions. Railway passenger transport is proven as a reliable and capable way of connecting regions. In many EÚ countries, railway transport has a certain gap, that could be improved without significant investments. In this study, we are focusing on negative consequences emerging from the cancelling operation of passenger transport on the chosen railway track. Most of the cancelations are affected by external influences. Individual car transport presents significant reasons with a noticeable impact on the potential of railway passenger transport in every region. On the railway line addressed in this article, passenger transport was cancelled in December 2019. This step was implemented for the constantly declining number of passengers. The object of the research is statistical dependence, characterized by the fact that the dependent variable is affected not only by independent variables but also by other unspecified variables and random effects. They are often called model faults or errors. This fact must be captured in a mathematical expression in a regression model. Based on this decision, it is necessary to seek answers to this situation using regression models that show the relationships between the number of passengers carried and the factors influencing their development. The main hypothesis is that the canceled of passenger transport was caused by low use by passengers. For example, with an increase/decrease in population, the number of passengers should increase/decrease the article verifies the dependences of the use of railway transport on the population of individual municipalities and on the development of fuel prices. Various dependencies (linear, polynomial, etc.) are used to test hypotheses. Testing of these dependencies will be performed using Fisher–Snedecor distribution. In the final part, the article also deals with the possibilities of using this line, as freight railway transport is no longer operated on this line. The research was carried out by a case study.
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Čamaj, Juraj, Štefan Čarný, and Adrián Šperka. "Regression Models for Determining Dependencies on Various Factors on the Railway Line Zohor – Záhorská Ves." Transport technic and technology 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ttt-2020-0008.
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Abstract Public passenger transport is presented as an opportunity to achieve future goals for establishing sustainable transportation systems. These systems are demanded from every member country of the EU for securing an ecologically friendly, fast, and reliable way of traveling in regions. Railway passenger transport is proven as a reliable and capable way of connecting regions. In many EÚ countries, railway transport has a certain gap, that could be improved without significant investments. In this study, we are focusing on negative consequences emerging from the cancelling operation of passenger transport on the chosen railway track. Most of the cancelations are affected by external influences. Individual car transport presents significant reasons with a noticeable impact on the potential of railway passenger transport in every region. On the railway line addressed in this article, passenger transport was cancelled in December 2019. This step was implemented for the constantly declining number of passengers. The object of the research is statistical dependence, characterized by the fact that the dependent variable is affected not only by independent variables but also by other unspecified variables and random effects. They are often called model faults or errors. This fact must be captured in a mathematical expression in a regression model. Based on this decision, it is necessary to seek answers to this situation using regression models that show the relationships between the number of passengers carried and the factors influencing their development. The main hypothesis is that the canceled of passenger transport was caused by low use by passengers. For example, with an increase/decrease in population, the number of passengers should increase/decrease the article verifies the dependences of the use of railway transport on the population of individual municipalities and on the development of fuel prices. Various dependencies (linear, polynomial, etc.) are used to test hypotheses. Testing of these dependencies will be performed using Fisher–Snedecor distribution. In the final part, the article also deals with the possibilities of using this line, as freight railway transport is no longer operated on this line. The research was carried out by a case study.
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Zhang, Qi, and Chen Yang Yi. "Agent-Based Simulation Model of Passenger Flow Distribution in Urban Railway Network." Applied Mechanics and Materials 409-410 (September 2013): 1131–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.409-410.1131.
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According to characteristics of passenger flow distribution in urban railway network, proportion factors were defined to present statistic characteristics of passenger distribution at stations. An agent-based simulation model was presented to describe interactive effect among passengers, stations and trains. Two series of scenario experiments were designed, considering passenger distribution at stations and trains frequency. Station factor experiments show that increase of transfer passenger proportion of major transfer direction has different effects on passenger numbers at stations with different locations. Train headway experiments show that adjustment of train service frequency in circle line, compared with radial line, has an obvious effect on passenger flow in network. Experiment results in case study prove the validity of the simulation model on reflecting passenger distribution characteristics in urban railway network.
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Yang, Bo, Xuedong Yan, and Dahai Guo. "Level of Service Analysis Based on Maximum Number of Passengers in Waiting Room of Railway Passenger Station Using Arena Simulation." Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society 2015 (2015): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/452035.
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The level of service is an important aspect of the operation and management at a railway passenger station. Particularly, the level of service in waiting room (LOSWR) is one of the most important influential factors in deciding passengers’ satisfaction. This paper proposes a model for finding the LOSWR based on the maximum number of passengers, and an Arena simulation model that simulates passengers’ aggregation behaviors in the waiting room is presented for analyzing the LOSWR. Through the simulation, we demonstrate how the passenger advanced arrival time and the accompany rate influence the maximum number of passengers and the LOSWR. In addition, the simulation also illustrates the effect utilities and the priority of different measures that can be used to improve the LOSWR. In detail, the simulation results demonstrate that the passenger advanced arrival time and advanced check-out time have much stronger effect utilities on the maximum number of passengers and the LOSWR than other discussed factors. The simulation suggests that the Arena is an effective simulation platform for analyzing complex passengers-related behaviors at railway passenger station.
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Maskeliūnaitė, Lijana, Henrikas Sivilevičius, and Valentinas Podvezko. "RESEARCH ON THE QUALITY OF PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION BY RAILWAY." TRANSPORT 24, no. 2 (June 30, 2009): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/1648-4142.2009.24.100-112.
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The transportation of passengers by railroads is a dynamic process because setting, wherein the process takes place, undergoes continuous changes observed at technical, technological and transportation process planning levels. Every passenger has different needs and aims and can afford different possibilities. Therefore, the conception of quality differs in each individual case. In order to be able to plan a railway trip process in a proper manner, it is important to become familiarized with passenger needs and preferences and eliminate any existing deficiencies. To this end, it is reasonable to conduct passenger surveys. The paper provides an affinity diagram of railway transportation quality factors, the elements whereof correspond to the structure of the survey questionnaire. For determining the level of the quantitative significance (weight) of indicators, there was applied the method of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) developed and introduced by the American scientist T. Saaty. The scope of research work carried out by the authors covered the determination of the highest eigenvalue, the compatibility ratio, the concordance correlation coefficient, the estimated and critical value of chi‐square values (the examples of estimations are presented in the paper) as well as the classification and processing of the surveyed data on passenger questionnaire and the analysis of respondents’ opinion. The closing part of the paper presents conclusions drawn based on the findings of the survey and respective recommendations for quality improvements in passenger transportation by Lithuanian railways.
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Balaka, Yevgeniy, Maryna Rezunenko, and Volodymyr Vdovychenko. "COMPARATIVE FORECAST OF PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION IN LONG HAUL RAILWAY AND LONG-DISTANCE BUS SERVICE." Automobile transport, no. 48 (May 29, 2021): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.30977/at.2219-8342.2021.48.0.54.
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The article presents methodological approaches to determining the volume of passenger service in long-distance railway connections and intercity bus services in Ukraine, which are expected in the coming years. Goal. The purpose of the study is to increase the reliability of the information base for making informed management decisions on the further development of the transport passenger complex. Methodology. In the process of research there was used a set of methods of expert assessment and logical analysis of possible factors influencing; economic and mathematical modeling; formalized extrapolation methods to determine the predictive parameters of influencing factors. Results. The forecast values of the number of transported passengers and the values of passenger turnover in long-distance railway and intercity bus connections in the short-term period are obtained. Originality. To estimate the forecast values of passenger traffic there was used the combination of methods of correlation-regression analysis and forecasting the magnitude of factors by the method of variable average. Practical value. The study of the patterns of passenger traffic dynamics revealed that in the next two years no significant changes are expected in the volume of work of both kinds of transport. However, in long-distance railway transport it is possible to increase passenger traffic by 1.6% (0.74 million passengers) and, accordingly, the annual passenger turnover will increase by 2.2%. In the intercity bus service, a slight decrease in the volume of passenger traffic by 0.8% (0.93 million passengers) is possible, and the rate of decrease in annual passenger turnover will be 0.5%. In the conditions of constant reduction of the population of Ukraine the most effective mechanism of ensuring further sustainable development of both types of passenger transportation is constant adjustment of tariff policy on the principles of flexibility and bonus tariff formation under condition of continuous improvement of services quality.
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Yang, Ju Hua, and Guang Wu Chen. "Railway Passenger Travel Aided Decision System Based on WEBGIS." Applied Mechanics and Materials 66-68 (July 2011): 2182–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.66-68.2182.
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The system goal is fixed as the choice and optimization of passenger travel-transfer station. Then the inquire method of all kinds of travel schedules is proposed and Railway Passenger Travel Aided Decision System(RPTADS) is developed with WEBGIS. The aim of the system is to provide the query result to passengers, and the optimal route will be displayed on the map intuitively, which make the synchronous connection reality between the text inquiry result and the map specific display. In addition, the timetable database of railway passenger transportation could be renewed timely by background decision software according to line conditions.
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Sidorchuk, Roman, Anastasia Lukina, Ilya Markin, Stanislav Korobkov, Natalia Ivashkova, Sergey Mkhitaryan, and Irina Skorobogatykh. "Influence of Passenger Flow at the Station Entrances on Passenger Satisfaction Amid COVID-19." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 4 (November 16, 2020): 150. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/joitmc6040150.
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Railway stations are centers of mass accumulation of people. Additional regulations change the intensity of the flow of visitors and the time of entering the station. Delays become an essential factor affecting the perceived satisfaction with all services at stations. This paper analyzes the impact of the intensity of passenger flow in the key areas of the station (entrance groups) on the satisfaction of visitors with station functioning (by the example of Moscow railway stations). The authors of the paper used methods of observation to measure the current passenger flows at the entrances to the station and also collected secondary data on transport flows at city railway stations. To predict passenger flow, the authors used statistical methods to assess the relationship between variables and regression. The paper used a survey of passengers to analyze satisfaction with the functioning of railway station facilities and assess the acceptable delay time at the entrance/exit to the station. The article substantiates that in the context of current requirements for transport security, an important factor for perceived satisfaction with station services is the forecasting and management of passenger flows and control of time of entering the station.
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Githaiga, Nancy Muthoni. "The Successes and Challenges of Kenya’s Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway Transport Operations: A Special Reference to the Users." Research in World Economy 12, no. 2 (March 2, 2021): 258. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/rwe.v12n2p258.
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This article examined the successes and challenges of Kenya’s standard gauge railway for users in transport operations. The constrained operations in Kenya’s existing colonial railway system have contributed to connectivity barriers and inefficiencies in the transport sector. Standard Gauge Railway’s construction aimed to address these gaps and facilitate cargo and passenger transport operations in Kenya and across borders. This study used a descriptive research design in the form of a survey and adopted a mixed research method of qualitative and quantitative data with primary data collected through questionnaires and interviews. The population of interest was the train users (passengers and cargo transporters). The findings suggested that the railway has generally enhanced transport operations for passengers and freight through reduced travelling time, improved transport safety and security, and improved mobility and accessibility. While the SGR has led to reduced travel costs for passengers, the cost of freight transport remains relatively high.The SGR has provided an alternative for freight and passenger transport, but there are challenges such as logistical and administrative challenges in cargo clearance, ticketing issues, and passengers' “First mile and Last mile” challenges. While the improvement of physical transport infrastructure and connectivity is significant, these challenges should be transformed into enablers to realize the railway’s full potential. This research, therefore, recommends for; effective transfer of the cargo clearance and forwarding paperwork from Mombasa to Nairobi; development of a transport link between the railway and the two major cities to solve the “first mile” and “last mile” transport challenges for passengers, and to audit the ticketing system to identify and sanction cartels involved in ticketing malpractices. The overall conclusion is that generally, the railway has added value in Kenya’s transport sector; passengers now have a cheaper, reliable and safer mode of transport while cargo is transported in a more reliable and safer way. The SGR is thus a transformative infrastructural project for Kenya; it symbolizes a country on a pressing need to transform herself into a middle-income economy supported by modern infrastructure.
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Chen, Jia Juan, Bo Wen Yu, and Yong Wang. "The Optimization Study of Passengers Stop Security in Railway Station." Advanced Materials Research 1065-1069 (December 2014): 3306–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1065-1069.3306.
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With the growth of railway passenger flow, the demanding of travel safety continues to increase. The optimization of security systems is vital for the safety of the passengers. Scientific and rational allocation of railway stations security equipment for achieving effective security upgrade is of great significance. In this paper, we modeling and simulating using Beijing Railway Station by Flexsim simulation software. We analysis the passenger entering flow line, the number of security equipment, the security system layout, the security level, which obtain the optimal solutions by simulation. We provide a scientific number and a rational arrangement of security equipment program under different circumstances for Beijing Railway Station.
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Daamen, Winnie, Piet H. L. Bovy, and Serge P. Hoogendoorn. "Influence of Changes in Level on Passenger Route Choice in Railway Stations." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1930, no. 1 (January 2005): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105193000102.
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In assessing the design of a public transfer station, it is important to be able to predict the routes taken by passengers. Most simulation tools use simple route choice models that take into account only the shortest walking distance or walking time between a passenger's origin and destination. To improve this type of route choice model, other factors affecting passenger route choice need to be identified. Also, the way these factors influence route choice behavior needs to be determined to indicate how each factor is valued. In this research, route choice data have been collected in two Dutch train stations by following passengers through the facility from their origins to their destinations. These data have been used to estimate extended route choice models. The focus is on the influences of level changes in walking routes on passenger route choice behavior. It appears that ways of bridging level changes (ramps, stairs, escalators) each have a significant and different impact on the attractiveness of a route to a traveler.
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Ashok, P. "Determinants of Passenger Satisfaction on Service Quality in Southern Railways with Reference to Madurai Division." Shanlax International Journal of Management 7, no. 4 (April 1, 2020): 86–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/management.v7i4.2307.
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This study analyzes the satisfaction of customers (passengers) on the examination given by southern railways concerning the Madurai division. For this foundation, the factors affirmation, tangibles, timeliness, responsiveness, information system, concern, food and safety, reliability, and security were employed to measure the passenger’s perceptions about the service quality of railways. The customers are limited to the Madurai junction and they are selected on a random basis. The core intention of the study is to know about the perception of customers towards service provided by southern railways and to implement a linear regression model to know about the factors influencing customer satisfaction. For this purpose, a sample of 500 questionnaires was collected were frequency analysis, chi-square with cross-tabulation, factor analysis, ANOVA, multiple regression model and descriptive statistics were used as statistical tools for analyzing the data. The study brings to a close that civilizing the quality of service is one of the ways to progress the competitiveness of Railway Passenger Business.
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Sivilevičius, Henrikas, and Lijana Maskeliūnaitė. "THE CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING THE QUALITY OF PASSENGERS’ TRANSPORTATION BY RAILWAY AND THEIR RANKING USING AHP METHOD." TRANSPORT 25, no. 4 (December 31, 2010): 368–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/transport.2010.46.
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Passengers’ transportation by rail involving various interested groups, such as managers, service staff and passengers, is a complicated process. Decision‐making persons, organizing railway trips should take into account the interests, needs and possibilities of these particular groups. The solution to some problems associated with passengers’ transportation by rail depends on the experience and qualification of decision‐makers, people who are responsible for the effectiveness of this work. To increase the quality of railway trips, the interested parties, groups of people mentioned above, should coordinate their actions, cooperate with each other in solving the problems and exchange relevant information. Therefore, the increasing quality of passenger transportation is a complicated issue, requiring good professional skills based on knowledge, practical experience, high intellect and new ideas of all the people involved in this process. The current paper presents a diagram showing passenger's transportation quality with a number of criterion groups A, B, C, D matching the structure and numbers of the questions included in the questionnaires to survey respondents (passengers) and experts (service and administration staff of the train). What is more, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology based on the pair wise comparison of criteria is used to determine their weights (significances) considering the data obtained from the respondents and experts of each of three categories. Only these questionnaires which have no contradictory estimates are used. Also, the calculation methods demonstrating the results of the survey are provided in this work. One more point such as the data elicited from the respondents who took part in the survey (i.e. passengers from the train running on the international route Vilnius‐Moscow) and experts (i.e. service staff of the already mentioned train and representatives of the administration staff from the Joint‐Stock Company ‘Lithuanian Railways’ (AB ,,Lietuvos geležinkeliai")) is analyzed. Finally, the conclusions for improving the quality for passenger transportation by Lithuanian railways are given.
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Zheng, Chen, Bao Min Hu, and Li Bei. "Study on Railway Passenger Service Based on Customer Perception." Applied Mechanics and Materials 397-400 (September 2013): 2693–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.397-400.2693.
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Three major links of railway passenger transportation service including ticket selling, waiting and travel on-board are introduced in view of customers, which display the outline of China railway transportation briefly. China railway is entering high speed railway generation. It is facing a more competitive market. It must works hard to improve its service to enhance passengers satisfaction in order to attract more customers. Customers interest must be put in the first place whether tangible or intangible service is supplied.
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Sungatullina, A. T., I. B. Gumina, and G. A. Antonova. "Passenger insurance on the Russians railway transport. Automated subsystem of voluntary insurance against passengers accidents on the railway transport bases on the automated control system “Express”." Vestnik of the Railway Research Institute 77, no. 1 (February 28, 2018): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.21780/2223-9731-2018-77-1-27-33.
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The article reviews the ways of insurance in railway transport, namely compulsory insurance of the civil liability of the carrier for causing damage to life, health, property of passengers and voluntary insurance of passengers on the basis of the management system for passenger transportations in the automated control system “Express”. In the case of compulsory insurance, a railway ticket for a longdistance train is a confirmation that the passenger is insured. No additional documents are needed. In the case of voluntary insurance, a passenger can purchase a voluntary insurance policy at the railway ticket office or through the website www: //rzd.ru. The ACS “Express” gives the opportunity for a passenger to issue a travel document for a long distance train and a policy of voluntary insurance against accidents in one of four insurance companies: PJSC “Rosgosstrakh”, LLC “Renaissance Insurance Group”, JSC “Insurance Company BLAGOSOSTOYANIE”, JSC “Insurance Company of the Gas Industry” (SOGAZ). At the moment each insurance company offers insurance premium of 3 par values with the relevant insurance amounts. The cost of voluntary insurance policies depends only on the sum insured and does not depend on such factors as the duration of the trip, the train category or the age of the insured. Insurance coverage is valid during the trip from the moment of announcement of boarding, but not earlier than 30 minutes before departure, and ends no later than one hour after the arrival of the insured passenger to the destination station, provided that it is located on the territory of the railway station or terminal. The insurance contract is concluded for one trip in longdistance railway transport. The information technology of voluntary insurance creates for passengers more attractive conditions, the comfort and safety of passenger transportation increases. The article provides the functional description and report examples of developed and implemented in the industrial operation software and analysis complex on the basis of the ACS “Express”, which includes automated work stations (AWS) “Insurance companies and complexes”, “Voluntary insurance” and “Inquiry on insured passengers by train”. This software and analytical complex implements tasks that ensure the formation of reference and analytical information, operational financial reporting on the sold voluntary insurance policies and monitoring of the demand indicators of insurance policies and insurance companies.
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Zhang, Bing Chen, Wei Min Guo, and Yan Qun Wang. "Research on Seat Design of Railway Passenger Car." Key Engineering Materials 474-476 (April 2011): 260–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.474-476.260.
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Railway transportation hold a leading post in the long-distance passenger transport market. Passengers spend most of their time sitting, so seat affect passenger comfort most among interior facilities of coach. One of the major tasks of interior design is functionality and comfort of seat. Seat width, seat depth and seat height are basic functions factors of seat. The seat depth is major issue of functionality design of 25g car. The shape of cushion and backrest are main comfort factors of seat. The backrest angle is major issue of comfort design of 25g car now. The interior system design of railway passenger car can be developed if we stress and make rational use of these factors of seat design.
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Xie, Mei-Quan, Xia-Miao Li, Wen-Liang Zhou, and Yan-Bing Fu. "Forecasting the Short-Term Passenger Flow on High-Speed Railway with Neural Networks." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2014 (2014): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/375487.
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Short-term passenger flow forecasting is an important component of transportation systems. The forecasting result can be applied to support transportation system operation and management such as operation planning and revenue management. In this paper, a divide-and-conquer method based on neural network and origin-destination (OD) matrix estimation is developed to forecast the short-term passenger flow in high-speed railway system. There are three steps in the forecasting method. Firstly, the numbers of passengers who arrive at each station or depart from each station are obtained from historical passenger flow data, which are OD matrices in this paper. Secondly, short-term passenger flow forecasting of the numbers of passengers who arrive at each station or depart from each station based on neural network is realized. At last, the OD matrices in short-term time are obtained with an OD matrix estimation method. The experimental results indicate that the proposed divide-and-conquer method performs well in forecasting the short-term passenger flow on high-speed railway.
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Guts, A. V. "Models of Organisation of Combined (Mixed-Mode) Passenger Transportation." World of Transport and Transportation 18, no. 6 (July 30, 2021): 208–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2020-18-6-208-219.
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The article examines business models for mixedmode (combined) passenger transportation and development of combined passenger transportation as a factor in the growth of capacity of the railway passenger transportation market. The crisis in the transport services market, caused by non-economic factors (COVID‑19 pandemic), is characterized by a classic combination of supply shocks and demand shocks for passenger transportation, which increases relevance of the problem of searching ways to rise the volume of passenger traffic, in particular, by rail, demand for services provided to the public using railway assets.The current approach to increasing the demand for railway passenger transportation by developing the railway route network, improving the equipment of railway stations and the quality of service, expanding the range of services offered, promoting everything that encourages the consumption of services by a larger number of customers, will remain important. Nevertheless, this approach should be critically considered and supplemented in the light of new economic trends motivated by digital technology. That is especially important today, when, in conditions of resource constraints, a strategic organisational solution is needed aimed at scaling a business, achieving an optimal «balance» of costs, quality, competencies, flexibility and customer focus.The organisation of combined passenger transportation involves active «horizontal» interaction of various transport organisations, both among themselves and with different cohorts of passengers with their own consumer preferences and income restrictions. Therefore, the transition from linear business processes built «vertically» to horizontal business processes that offer specialised packages of services through a «single window» system according to uniform standards based on digital technologies is relevant.The article proposes models for organising network interaction of participants in the passenger transportation market based on digital technologies to ensure «seamless» mobility of the population with the consolidating role of railway transport. Specific models for organising combined railway transportation should be based on a specific business model, the choice of which is determined by a strategic decision of the company.
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Jurkowski, Wojciech. "Przestrzenne i czasowe zróżnicowanie natężenia potoków pasażerskich w kolejowych połączeniach dojazdowych do Wrocławia." Prace Komisji Geografii Komunikacji PTG 23, no. 1 (2020): 28–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2543859xpkg.20.010.12112.
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Spatial and temporal patterns of railway commuting to Wrocław The development and optimisation of the agglomeration and regional railway system is one of the basic challenges for the regional policy of the local government in Poland. There are many studies focusing on the problems of functioning of railway transport in agglomeration areas, however there are less studies dealing with the issue of demand for railway services during the day. It is a evident research gap. The main purpose of this article is to recognize the spatial and temporal differentiation of the railway passenger volume in Wrocław. The article presents the number of passengers arriving and departing from Wroclaw according to particular directions, and identifies peak hours based on the daily distribution of passenger volume in specific time intervals.
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Wang, Wenxian, Tie Shi, Yongxiang Zhang, and Qian Zhu. "An Affinity Propagation-Based Clustering Method for the Temporal Dynamics Management of High-Speed Railway Passenger Demand." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2021 (April 28, 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/7497094.
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The number of passengers in a high-speed railway line normally varies significantly by the time periods, such as the peak and nonpeak hours. A reasonable classification of railway operation time intervals is essential for an adaptive adjustment of the train schedule. However, the passenger flow intervals are usually classified manually based on experience, which is subjective and inaccurate. Based on the time samples of actual passenger demand data for 365 days, this paper proposes an affinity propagation (AP) algorithm to automatically classify the passenger flow intervals. Specifically, the AP algorithm first merges time samples into different categories together with the passenger transmit volume of the stations, which are used as descriptive variables. Furthermore, clustering validity indexes, such as Calinski–Harabasz, Hartigan, and In-Group Proportion, are employed to examine the clustering results, and reasonable passenger flow intervals are finally obtained. A case study of the Zhengzhou-Xi’an high-speed railway indicates that our proposed AP algorithm has the best performance. Moreover, based on the passenger flow interval classification results obtained using the AP algorithm, the train operation plan fits the passenger demand better. As a result, the indexes of passenger demand satisfaction rate, average train occupancy rate, and passenger flow rate are improved by 7.6%, 16.7%, and 14.1%, respectively, in 2014. In 2015, the above three indicators are improved by 5.7%, 18.4%, and 14.4%, respectively.
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Brzeziński, Andrzej, Tomasz Dybicz, and Andrzej Waltz. "Railway passenger traffic model." ACTA SCIENTIARUM POLONORUM - Architectura Budownictwo 17, no. 4 (December 24, 2018): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/aspa.2018.17.4.36.
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Cheng, Xiaoyun, Yu Cao, Kun Huang, and Yuejiao Wang. "Modeling the Satisfaction of Bus Traffic Transfer Service Quality at a High-Speed Railway Station." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2018 (July 16, 2018): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/7051789.
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Bus transit is one of the main transfer modes at high-speed railway (HSR) stations. Performing a scientific and reasonable evaluation of the present bus traffic transfer service is highly significant for improving the efficiency of the HSR and increasing the use of the system. This paper focuses on the passengers’ transfer experience and proposes a methodology to evaluate current bus traffic transfer service. Factors that affect passenger satisfaction during the bus transfer process at HSR stations based on the passengers’ perceptions are analyzed by convenience, comfort, safety, service, and economy. A structural equation model (SEM) is developed as an evaluation approach to explore the correlations of bus transfer service, passenger perceived value, and passenger satisfaction. To calibrate the model, a questionnaire survey of passengers transferring to a bus was conducted at Xi’anbei Railway Station. This paper analyzes the relationships between observed variables and latent variables in the measured model, the influences of exogenous variables on endogenous variables in the structural model, and the impact of the passengers’ socioeconomic attributes on passenger satisfaction. Analysis results of the SEM show that economy and convenience are the critical influential indicators of passenger satisfaction, among which bus fare preferential policy and transfer distance are the most significant factors. The findings can provide helpful information for planners and managers to improve the services of existing HSR stations and to guide the planning of new ones.