Impact of railway disruption predictions and rescheduling on passenger delays

Impact of railway disruption predictions and rescheduling on passenger delays

Ghaemi, N. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Zilko, A.A. (TU Delft Applied Probability)
Yan, F. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)
Kurowicka, D. (TU Delft Applied Probability)
Goverde, R.M.P. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)

2018

Disruptions such as rolling stock breakdown, signal failures, and accidents are recurrent events during daily railway operation. Such events disrupt the deployment of resources and cause delay to passengers. Obtaining a reliable disruption length estimation can potentially reduce the negative impact caused by the disruption. Different factors such as the location, cause of disruption, traffic density, etc. can determine the disruption length. The uncertainty inherent to the variability of each factor and the unavailability of sufficient data results in a wide distribution of disruption lengths from which a certain value should be selected as the length prediction. The rescheduling measure considered in this research is short-turning the trains that are heading to the disrupted area. To investigate the impact of the disruption length estimates on the rescheduling strategy and the resulting passengers delays, this research presents a framework consisting of three models: a disruption length model, short-turning model and passenger assignment model. The framework is applied to a part of the Dutch railway network. The results show the effects of short (optimistic) and long (pessimistic) estimates on the number of affected passengers, generalized travel time and number of passengers rerouting and transferring.

Dependence model
Passenger assignment
Prediction
Railway disruption
Short-turning

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ae7509ff-0ac2-4ca3-9bc9-09f6ce0a0ecd

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrtpm.2018.02.002

2018-11-03

2210-9706

Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 8 (2), 103-122

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© 2018 N. Ghaemi, A.A. Zilko, F. Yan, O. Cats, D. Kurowicka, R.M.P. Goverde