Abstract
A comfortable environment in railway passenger coaches can be regarded as a resource for social consumption during the transport process. Railway passenger comfort benefits (RPCBs) can be regarded as a special generalized cost. In this paper, we select a series of objective and subjective indexes to formulate a quantitative method of calculating the RPCB with considering ticket fares. This method includes three steps: make the initial data dimensionless, calculate the weight of each index, and finally calculate the RPCBs. The proposed method was validated with the data collected from two types of trains: G13 from Beijing South to Shanghai Hongqiao and T109 from Beijing to Shanghai. Also, questionnaire survey was conducted in both trains. After data processing, the results show that there is a linear relationship between the RPCB and ticket fare with a correlation coefficient of 0.9616.
Highlights
With the rapid economic growth and high-speed rail network expanding in China, people are more willing to travel by train, and there is an increasing requirement for passenger comfort of train travel
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After choosing the objective and subjective indexes, we used measurement devices to collect the data of the objective indexes from two types of railway trains, a high-speed train of G13 from Beijing South to Shanghai Hongqiao and an ordinary-speed train of T109 from Beijing to Shanghai
Summary
With the rapid economic growth and high-speed rail network expanding in China, people are more willing to travel by train, and there is an increasing requirement for passenger comfort of train travel. During and after journey, passengers will spend less time to get rid of travel fatigue This means that providing comfortable transport service is one of the most important measures to attract the passengers. It points out that the improvement in passenger comfort benefits is one of the most important evaluation indexes needed to be calculated. Shuai calculation approaches to calculate passenger comfort benefits, so it is important to find out a new approach, which can be used both in theoretical research and engineering practice. In this paper we focus on the quantitative calculation approach and application of RPCBs considering ticket fares. 4 we give a detailed formulation about the proposed quantitative calculation approach considering passenger ticket fare.
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