Passenger Experience of China’s High Speed Rail (HSR) Service

Dynamic pricing for passenger groups of high-speed rail transportation

The widespread high-speed rail has become an important transportation mode for tourists in China, who travel primarily in groups. With more attractive price, railway operators may be able to expand ridership, improve customer satisfaction, and ultimately increase revenue. The traditional pricing method for passenger groups, however, is relatively simple, inflexible, which may lead to profit los...

Dynamic Analyses for Passenger Volume of Domestic Airline and High Speed Rail

Discrete choice model is the most used methodology for studying traveler’s mode choice and demand. However, to calibrate the discrete choice model needs to have plenty of questionnaire survey. In this study, an aggregative model is proposed. The historical data of passenger volumes for high speed rail and domestic civil aviation are employed to calibrate and validate the model. In this study, d...

Optimizing train stopping patterns and schedules for high-speed passenger rail corridors

High-speed railway (HSR) systems have been developing rapidly in China and various other countries throughout the past decade; as a result, the question of how to efficiently operate such large-scale systems is posing a new challenge to the railway industry. A high-quality train timetable should take full advantage of the system’s capacity to meet transportation demands. This paper presents a m...

Incorporating High Speed Passenger Rail into a Multimodal Network Model for Improved Regional Transportation Planning

Service Quality and Rail Transport in Pakistan: A Passenger Perspective

Customer satisfaction and retention is one of the key determinants to measure the quality of products or services and hence the organizational performance. Due to the growing importance of quality in our life, customers desire to enjoy a relatively better quality of products or availing superior quality services has been increased. Pakistan is the sixth highly populated country of the world and...