Research Article

On Individual Repositioning Distance along Platform during Train Waiting

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Notations.

NotationsDescriptions

Passenger
and Passenger number and passenger set by station leg
Passengers’ walking speeds on walking links in access and egress stations
Passenger longitudinal repositioning distance
and Passenger ’s tap-in instant at a access gate and tap-out instant at a egress gate on a trip leg
and Passenger walking-in distance and time from tap-in gate to platform access point in access station
Passenger walking-in distance from platform entrance to platform boarding point in access station
Passenger walking-out distance from platform alighting point to platform exit in egress station
and Passenger walking-out distance and time from platform egress point to tap-out gate in egress station
and Total walking-in and total walking-out times in access and egress stations
Passenger apparent waiting time
Passenger residual waiting time on waiting (also boarding) point,
Passenger total time cost in access station for boarding train run ,
Train
and Train run number and train run set along a line
and Number and subset of train runs for passenger
and Feasible number and subset of train runs for passenger
and Train run ’s departure time at access station and arrival time at egress station
Train run speeds between access and egress stations
Network
and Station number and station set along a line
and Access station and egress station
Auxiliary variables or functions
Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) of variable
Probability Density Function (PDF) of variable
Probability to take train run , conditioning on and
Threshold value of repositioning distance
Kernel function of repositioning on platform
Studied period,
and Parameter vector and its estimated value
Space of parameter vector