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Article: Social equity-based timetabling and ticket pricing for high-speed railways

TitleSocial equity-based timetabling and ticket pricing for high-speed railways
Authors
KeywordsHigh-speed railway
Train timetabling
Ticket pricing
Social equity
Issue Date2020
PublisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tra
Citation
Transportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice, 2020, v. 137, p. 165-186 How to Cite?
AbstractHigh-speed railways are expanding rapidly over the world, providing fast, convenient, and comfortable transport. It is therefore important to ensure that people are not excluded from high-speed railway use due to relatively high ticket prices. We aim to develop a railway timetable according to passenger requirements that explicitly considers social equity by applying variable ticket prices to trains. Specifically, we want to optimize ticket prices for trains operating during off-peak hours to improve accessibility for low-income passengers to improve social justice. A mixed integer linear programming model is formulated to solve our problem. In this timetabling-based model, we not only minimize the total general travel cost from a passenger perspective but also ensure that the revenue of the train company is no less than a specified value and that social equity is maintained at a specific level. To do this, we consider the social equity constraint and the minimum revenue requirement constraint, in addition to the traditional passenger-centric (-oriented) train timetabling-related constraints. Finally, we test our model on both a hypothetical high-speed railway network and the Guangzhou–Nanning and Guangzhou–Guilin high-speed railway network in China. The results demonstrate that the proposed optimization framework can provide a convenient timetable for passengers, adequate revenue for train companies and enhance social equity to meet government targets.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/282898
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2023 Impact Factor: 6.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.182
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dc.contributor.authorZhan, S-
dc.contributor.authorWong, SC-
dc.contributor.authorLo, SM-
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-05T06:22:51Z-
dc.date.available2020-06-05T06:22:51Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationTransportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice, 2020, v. 137, p. 165-186-
dc.identifier.issn0965-8564-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/282898-
dc.description.abstractHigh-speed railways are expanding rapidly over the world, providing fast, convenient, and comfortable transport. It is therefore important to ensure that people are not excluded from high-speed railway use due to relatively high ticket prices. We aim to develop a railway timetable according to passenger requirements that explicitly considers social equity by applying variable ticket prices to trains. Specifically, we want to optimize ticket prices for trains operating during off-peak hours to improve accessibility for low-income passengers to improve social justice. A mixed integer linear programming model is formulated to solve our problem. In this timetabling-based model, we not only minimize the total general travel cost from a passenger perspective but also ensure that the revenue of the train company is no less than a specified value and that social equity is maintained at a specific level. To do this, we consider the social equity constraint and the minimum revenue requirement constraint, in addition to the traditional passenger-centric (-oriented) train timetabling-related constraints. Finally, we test our model on both a hypothetical high-speed railway network and the Guangzhou–Nanning and Guangzhou–Guilin high-speed railway network in China. The results demonstrate that the proposed optimization framework can provide a convenient timetable for passengers, adequate revenue for train companies and enhance social equity to meet government targets.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tra-
dc.relation.ispartofTransportation Research Part A: Policy & Practice-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectHigh-speed railway-
dc.subjectTrain timetabling-
dc.subjectTicket pricing-
dc.subjectSocial equity-
dc.titleSocial equity-based timetabling and ticket pricing for high-speed railways-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailZhan, S: shuguangzhan@my.swjtu.edu.cn-
dc.identifier.emailWong, SC: hhecwsc@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityWong, SC=rp00191-
dc.description.naturepostprint-
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tra.2020.04.018-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85085365682-
dc.identifier.hkuros310224-
dc.identifier.volume137-
dc.identifier.spage165-
dc.identifier.epage186-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000541099200011-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-
dc.identifier.issnl0965-8564-

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