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Formulation and Numerical Analysis of Commuting Equilibrium on Transit System with Women-Only Cars

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Abstract

In order to analyze and evaluate the policy of women-only cars, this paper formulates an equilibrium problem as a complementary model for a many-To-one transit system. In this model, all of the commuters are assumed to have the same work-start time at their destination and the same unit time cost of being early or late. In-car crowding is measured by the density of commuters inside a car with the similar crowding level bringing higher crowding cost to female commuters as compared with male commuters. Existence of equilibrium is proved by converting a complementary model into an equivalent variational inequalities (VI) problem. Finally, a numerical example finds that the ratio of women-only cars can greatly influence the travel costs of all commuters. With a new objective function of social welfare loss, women-only cars can be regarded as an effective policy to improve the travel welfare loss on a transit system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCICTP 2015 - Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation - Proceedings of the 15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals
EditorsXuedong Yan, Yu Zhang, Yafeng Yin
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Pages3715-3726
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9780784479292
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation, CICTP 2015 - Beijing, China
Duration: 24 Jul 201527 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameCICTP 2015 - Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation - Proceedings of the 15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals

Conference

Conference15th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals: Efficient, Safe, and Green Multimodal Transportation, CICTP 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period24/07/1527/07/15

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