TY - GEN
T1 - Passenger Flow Control at Platforms for Real Time Operations in Urban Rail Systems
AU - Yatziv, Yotam
AU - Haddad, Jack
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Over the recent years, passenger flows vary frequently causing disturbances on trains operation and unsafe overcrowded environments for passengers. In congested cases, the passengers demand can exceed the available trains' capacities, implying some passengers may be left at the stations, without boarding the trains. To improve the performance of rail systems under such disturbed scenarios, this paper presents a control method to regulate disturbed passenger flows and rail system. A discrete event traffic model coupling dynamics between staying times at stations and accumulated passengers at platforms is formulated. A new method is introduced allowing real time measurements on a time based system to evaluate the discrete event state. The suggested control method applies actions both on the train traffic and stations' facilities, using a model predictive control approach. Actions at each stage are calculated as a solution of quadratic programming problem with regulation objective, and safety, feasibility, and limited trains and platform capacities constraints. Moreover, the objective function accounts passengers at platforms to reach effective flows during the controlled period. A numerical example is given to demonstrate the rail system performances under the proposed control method.
AB - Over the recent years, passenger flows vary frequently causing disturbances on trains operation and unsafe overcrowded environments for passengers. In congested cases, the passengers demand can exceed the available trains' capacities, implying some passengers may be left at the stations, without boarding the trains. To improve the performance of rail systems under such disturbed scenarios, this paper presents a control method to regulate disturbed passenger flows and rail system. A discrete event traffic model coupling dynamics between staying times at stations and accumulated passengers at platforms is formulated. A new method is introduced allowing real time measurements on a time based system to evaluate the discrete event state. The suggested control method applies actions both on the train traffic and stations' facilities, using a model predictive control approach. Actions at each stage are calculated as a solution of quadratic programming problem with regulation objective, and safety, feasibility, and limited trains and platform capacities constraints. Moreover, the objective function accounts passengers at platforms to reach effective flows during the controlled period. A numerical example is given to demonstrate the rail system performances under the proposed control method.
KW - Discrete Event Systems
KW - Model Predictive Control
KW - Passengers Flow Control
KW - Urban Rail System
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175403088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1109/MT-ITS56129.2023.10241410
DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/MT-ITS56129.2023.10241410
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
T3 - 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2023
BT - 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2023
T2 - 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2023
Y2 - 14 June 2023 through 16 June 2023
ER -