Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses
This study deals with the elderly fare pricing issue for taking express buses in the morning peak period. As many elderly passengers are not commuters, fare discount policy may not be an opportune option when buses get overcrowded. Imposing surcharge on the elderly becomes a potentially beneficial m...
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| description | This study deals with the elderly fare pricing issue for taking express buses in the morning peak period. As many elderly passengers are not commuters, fare discount policy may not be an opportune option when buses get overcrowded. Imposing surcharge on the elderly becomes a potentially beneficial measure that encourages an appropriate number of elderly passengers to circumvent the most crowded buses. The elderly pricing surcharge problem is formulated as a bilevel model, in which the upper-level model is to make the pricing surcharge decision, and the lower-level model is the equilibrium passenger assignment that represents passengers’ bus choice behavior. It is classified into the special case and the generic case depending on the number of buses that impose surcharge. Several useful properties of two cases are analyzed, and a trial-and-error solution method is later developed to solve these two cases. Numerical experiments show that the elderly pricing surcharge scheme is not always applicable to all the demand scenarios, which owns a certain effective interval. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e8de1e675474468890b834be5ab515de2025-02-03T06:05:32ZengWileyJournal of Advanced Transportation0197-67292042-31952021-01-01202110.1155/2021/55632055563205Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express BusesJingxu Chen0Chengxin He1Xinlian Yu2Wendong Chen3Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou No. 2, Nanjing, ChinaJiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou No. 2, Nanjing, ChinaJiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou No. 2, Nanjing, ChinaJiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Southeast University, Si Pai Lou No. 2, Nanjing, ChinaThis study deals with the elderly fare pricing issue for taking express buses in the morning peak period. As many elderly passengers are not commuters, fare discount policy may not be an opportune option when buses get overcrowded. Imposing surcharge on the elderly becomes a potentially beneficial measure that encourages an appropriate number of elderly passengers to circumvent the most crowded buses. The elderly pricing surcharge problem is formulated as a bilevel model, in which the upper-level model is to make the pricing surcharge decision, and the lower-level model is the equilibrium passenger assignment that represents passengers’ bus choice behavior. It is classified into the special case and the generic case depending on the number of buses that impose surcharge. Several useful properties of two cases are analyzed, and a trial-and-error solution method is later developed to solve these two cases. Numerical experiments show that the elderly pricing surcharge scheme is not always applicable to all the demand scenarios, which owns a certain effective interval.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5563205 |
| spellingShingle | Jingxu Chen Chengxin He Xinlian Yu Wendong Chen Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses Journal of Advanced Transportation |
| title | Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses |
| title_full | Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses |
| title_fullStr | Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses |
| title_short | Morning Peak-Period Pricing Surcharge of Elderly Passengers Taking Express Buses |
| title_sort | morning peak period pricing surcharge of elderly passengers taking express buses |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5563205 |
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