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Mode boundaries of automated metro and semi-rapid rail in urban transit
- Source :
- Public Transport; October 2022, Vol. 14 Issue: 3 p739-802, 64p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Our research question is to what extent, and under what circumstances, full automation in metro lines defines transit mode boundaries with respect to semi-rapid transit. The modeling approach is based on micro-economic appraisal. Automation, beside changing the investment and operation and maintenance cost profiles of metro lines, can improve some aspects of the user experience. The low marginal cost of frequency possible with automated metro may unlock both users’ benefits viareduced waiting times and crowding, and operator’s savings viashorter trains and smaller platforms and stations. We show how the user’s travel time components are structurally different under several configurations. In particular, we highlight the critical role that different demand and alignment patterns play in the mode comparison.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1866749x and 16137159
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Public Transport
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs58224128
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-021-00287-9