Research Article

Exploring for Route Preferences of Subway Passengers Using Smart Card and Train Log Data

Table 3

Definition of notations.

Choice set generation algorithm
: the set of the subway station number
: the vector of the travel attributes of the passenger
: the tap-in time of the passenger
: the tap-out time of the passenger
: the origin station of the passenger
: the destination station of the passenger
: the vector of the attributes of the train combination
: the train departure time at the origin station
: the arrival time of the train for the previous segment (before transfer) at the transfer station
: the departure time of the train for the next segment (after transfer) at the transfer station
: the train arrival time at the destination station
: the origin station of the train combination
: the destination station of the train combination
: the set of the alternative train combination for the passenger

ECDF
: ECDF of the attribute

Train choice algorithm
Choice set-related notations
: the set of the passengers who have only one alternative train combination
: the set of the passengers who have more than two alternative train combinations
: the set of the passengers
: the number of the alternative train combination of passenger
Travel time attribute-related notations
: the access time of passenger
: the egress time of passenger
: the transfer time of passenger
: the access time at the origin station
: the egress time at the destination station
: the transfer time at the transfer station
: the mode value of the access time of the passenger
: the mode value of the egress time of the passenger
: the mode value of the transfer time at the transfer station of the passenger
ECDF-related notations
: the ECDF of the access time at the origin station
: the ECDF of the egress time at the destination station
: the ECDF of the access time at the origin station
Choice probability-related notations
: the choice probability of the train combination
: the probability of access time of the alternative train combination
: the probability of egress time of the alternative train combination
: the probability of transfer time of the alternative train combination
: the number of the train combination with the highest choice probability
: the number of the alternative train combination
: the choice probability of alternative train combination