The Analysis and Evaluation of Differentiated Transit Fare Structures

Abstract:

This paper discusses about the analysis and evaluation of different transit fare patterns. In the previous studies, most of the analyses concerned about the transportation economics issues. Recently, the methods of transportation modelling have been widely used in evaluating transit network. In this paper, a bi-level programming model is presented to evaluate the differentiated transit fare structures. The upper-level problem aims to minimize passengers’ total travel cost, whereas the lower-level problem is a stochastic user equilibrium transit assignment model with capacity constraints, which can be changed to different fare structures.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 713-715)
• Pages: 1951-1954
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.713-715.1951
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Di Huang*, Zhi Yuan Liu, Jian Chuan Cheng
• Keywords: Bi-Level Model, Distance-Based Transit Fare, Flat Fare, Stochastic User Equilibrium, Transit Fare Structures

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