Modelling the Joint Access Mode and Railway Station Choice

Analyzing Commuter Train User Behavior: a Decision Framework for Access Mode and Station Choice

Abermule Railway Station: Agent-Oriented Task-Centric Empirical Modelling

This paper presents and discusses an approach to modelling the situation at the Abermule Train Station immediately leading up to the train disaster of 1921. The incident itself is summarised and a modelling approach introduced and presented that is based on the principles behind Empirical Modelling (EM) and yet also around the notion of tasks. A corresponding model, built with EM software tools...

Modelling the joint choice of activity timing and duration

This paper develops a model of activity and trip scheduling that combines three elements that have to date mostly been investigated in isolation: the duration of activities, the time-of-day preference for activity participation and the effect of schedule delays on the valuation of activities. The model is an error component discrete choice model, describing individuals’ choice between alternati...

Econometric Calibration of the Joint Time Assignment-Mode Choice Model

This paper describes the derivation and the econometric calibration of a joint time assignment – mode choice model with a microeconomic foundation, to be applied to the TASTI (Time ASsignment Travel and Income) database. The econometric procedure is a full information maximum likelihood with three nonlinear continuous equations and one discrete choice. We use Lee’s transformation to include cor...

Railway station route searching based on ACA

In the railway station signal system, the route searching algorithm is an important software module to realize the function safety of this system. In the paper, the ant colony algorithm is applied to the railway station route searching. Take the specific station route-the Wangzhai Station route for example to search the shortest route. The ideas of the Wangzhai Station route searching are put f...