报告时间：2016年12月21日下午4:00

报告地点：北京交大科技创新大厦11层交通系统科学与工程研究院大会议室（交大西门北侧100m）

报告题目：Managing rail transit peak-hour congestion with fare-reward schemes

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Managing rail transit peak-hour congestion with fare-reward schemes

Abstract

We propose a new fare-reward scheme for managing commuter’s departure time choice in a rail transit corridor, which aims to incentivize commuters’ shift to shoulder periods of the peak-hour to relieve queueing at the transit stations. A general framework of the rail transit bottleneck is provided and uniform-fare user equilibrium and social optimum are determined. A fare-reward scheme (FRS) is then introduced that rewards a commuter one free trip during the shoulder periods after a certain number of paid trips during the peak-hour. For a given number of peak-hour commuters and ex-ante uniform fare, the FRS determines the free fare windows and the reward ratio (the number of paid trips required for one free trip, which is equivalent to the ratio of the number of rewarded commuters to the total number of commuters on each day). The new fare under the FRS is determined so that the transit operator’s revenue keeps unchanged before and after introducing the FRS. Our study indicates that, depending on the initial fare, FRS implements an optimal reward ratio up to 50% and yields a reduction of average time costs at least 25%. 

Professor Hai Yang

Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hai Yang Biography (1May 2016)

Prof. Hai Yang is currently a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is internationally known as an active scholar in the field of transportation, with more than 200 papers published in SCI/SSCI indexed journals and an H-index citation rate of 43. Most of his publications appeared in leading international journals, such as Transportation Research, Transportation Science and Operations Research. Prof. Yang received a number of national and international awards, including National Natural Science Award bestowed by the State Council of PR China (2011). He was appointed as Chang Jiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education of PR China. Prof. Yang is now the Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, a top journal in the field of transportation.