Research Article

A Travel Demand Response Model in MaaS Based on Spatiotemporal Preference Clustering

Table 2

Definitions of variables.

SymbolMeaning and formatMeaning of superscript/subscript and formatLocation of appearance in the text

Data of demand pointsTable 1 in Section 3.1 of the text
Set of reservation demand points
Set of departure time
Set of arrival time
Set of departure location
Set of arrival location
Traveling preference priority
, Reservation demand point; italic and lower case and are the serial number of the reservation demand points, italic and lower case
Departure time of reservation demand point; italic and lowercase, unit: min is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
Arrival time of reservation demand point; italic and lowercase, unit: min is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
Departure location of reservation demand point; italic and lowercase, unit: km is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
Arrival location of reservation demand point; italic and lowercase, unit: km is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
Priority order of traveling preference of reservation demand point; italic and lowercase is the serial number of the reservation demand point; represent the traveling preference of the fixed mode, the semifixed mode, and the flexible mode; italic and lowercase
Set of reservation point with the -th traveling preference and -th iteration of departure time; italic and uppercase is the serial number of traveling preference, is the number of iterations, where and ; italic and lowercaseContents of Section 3.2 in the text
Distance between clusters of reservation demand points calculated by the average linkage method; italic and uppercase, unit: min and are the serial number of clusters of reservation demand points; italic, lowercaseEquation 1 in the text
, Clusters of reservation demand points, and each cluster contains at least one reservation demand point; italic and uppercase and are the serial number of reservation demand points; italic and lowercase
, The number of points in the reservation demand point cluster; italic and lower case and are the serial number of reservation demand point clusters; italic and lowercase
, The departure time of a point in the reservation demand point cluster italic and lowercase, unit: min and are the serial number of reservation demand point cluster; italic and lowercase
Time span; unit: minEquation 2 in the text
The set of dense points with the same departure time preference; italic and uppercase
The set of discrete points with the same departure time preference; italic and uppercase
Minimum number of passengersEquation 3 in the text
The passenger capacity of the -th means of transport; italic and lowercase is the serial number of traveling preference, where
The expected full load rate of the -th means of transport; italic and lowercase is the serial number of traveling preference, where
The set of reservation points with the -th traveling preference and the -th iteration of arrival time; italic and uppercase is the serial number of traveling preference, and is the times of iterations, where , ; italic and lowercaseContents of Section 3.3 in the text
The set of discrete points with the same arrival time preference; italic and uppercase
The set of dense points with the same arrival time preference; italic and uppercaseEquation 4 in the text
The set of discrete points on the temporal dimension; italic and uppercase
Reservation demand points in the dense point sets and ; italic and lowercase is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
Reservation demand points in the set of isolated points and ; italic and lowercase is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
The set of dense points of the fixed transport mode in the time dimension italic and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the fixed mode of transport; italic and lowercaseContents of Section 3.3 in the text
The set of dense points of the semifixed transport mode in the time dimension; italic and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the semifixed mode of transport; italic and lowercase
The set of dense points of the flexible transport mode in the time dimension; italic and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the flexible mode of transport; italic and lowercase
The set of all reservation demand points within a circle with as the center and as the radius; italic and lowercase is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercaseContents of Section 4.1 and Equation 5 in the text
The set of reservation demand points within the sample; italic and uppercase
The distance between two reservation demand points and ; italic and lowercase, unit: km and are the serial number of reservation demand points; italic and lowercase
The number of reservation points within the neighborhood of ; italic and lowercase is the serial number of the reservation demand point; italic and lowercase
The minimum number of passengers that are responded to
The set of departure location clusters with a preference for the fixed transport mode; italic and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the fixed mode of transport; italic and lowercase
The set of departure location clusters with a preference for the semifixed transport mode; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the semifixed mode of transport; italic and lowercase
The set of departure location clusters with a preference for the flexible transport mode; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the flexible mode of transport; italic and lowercase
The set of arrival location clusters with a preference for the fixed transport mode; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the fixed mode of transport; italics and lowercaseContents of Section 4.2 and Equation 6 in the text
The set of arrival location clusters with a preference for the semifixed transport mode; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the semifixed mode of transport; italics and lowercase
The set of arrival location clusters with a preference for the flexible transport mode; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the flexible mode of transport; italics and lowercase
The set of dense points of fixed transport mode in the spatiotemporal dimension; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the fixed mode of transport; italics and lowercase
The set of dense points of semifixed mode in the spatiotemporal dimension; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the semifixed mode of transport; italics and lowercase
The set of dense points of spatiotemporal preference for the flexible transport mode; italics and uppercase represents the traveling preference for the flexible mode of transport; italics and lowercase
The set of dense points of different spatiotemporal preferences; italics and uppercase is the serial number of traveling preference, and ; italics and lowercase
The set of discrete points of spatiotemporal preference italics and uppercase