Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide passenger robustness measures for a rail transit network. A network is robust when it reacts well to disruptions on links or stations. In order to measure robustness, indexes relative to the overall travel time of a network when links fail are introduced for two different cases: without-bridging interruptions and with-bridging interruptions. In the first case, passengers either have to wait for the failure to be repaired or find an alternative route in the network, whereas in the second case a bus service between the affected stations is provided and only the failing link is disrupted. A computation of these indexes for the Madrid commuter system shows their applicability.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 34-46 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2012 |
Funding
This work was partly supported by the Future and Emerging Technologies Unit of EC (IST priority – 6th FP), under contract no. FP6-021235-2 (ARRIVAL project), by Ministerio Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) MTM2009-14243, by Junta de Andalucía P09-TEP-5022 , by Ministerio de Fomento (Spain) PT-2007-003-08CCPP and by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council under Grant 39682-10 . This support is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks are due to the division Cercan ı´ as Metropolitanas de Madrid , of the railway Spanish operator RENFE , for providing the necessary data for our computational experiments. We also thank the referees for their valuable comments.
Keywords
- Indexes
- Passenger robustness
- Railway network design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Automotive Engineering
- Transportation
- Computer Science Applications