Abstract
During the Beijing Olympics, as a major mode to support the urban traffic, Beijing subway adopts a series measures to give the guarantee to smooth operation of traffic, which include designing specific train schedule and extending the operation time of subway lines. Viewed from the characteristics of passenger flow in temporal distributions especially the opening and closing ceremony day and directional distributions such as the stations around competition venue, this paper analyzes the variety of the traffic flow of Beijing subway. The results indicate that the influence on passenger volumes from the Olympics is significantly associated with the layout of Olympics stadiums. Subway passenger volumes in central districts experience little increase both in weekdays and holidays. In the other aspect, the passenger flow have little rise in weekdays but reach a much higher amount in the holidays.
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