抄録
Recently in the conurbation area, traffic congestion on railway system is very terrific and the commutation area have been spread out year after year. So it is required to reduce traffic congestion and to shorten time to arrive at the destinations. Recent development of information system in a railway system makes it possible to know more accurate passengers demand in real time. In this paper, we propose a method to make more flexible train schedule based on passengers demand. The proposed method can make a train schedule to satisfy the most amount of demand and make the total trip time of passengers smallest. By setting number of trains and their start times, stop patterns of trains are automatically generated and evaluated by train traffic simulations and passengers flow simulations. These simulations are executed repeatedly to evaluate trial schedules in the planning process and so efficient simulation methods are also proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is examined through some examples of applications based on practical railway models.
