Method on Scale Problem of Passenger Catering Center for High-Speed Railway

Abstract

With the construction and operation of high-speed railway and inter-city railway, Electric Multiple Units (EMU) passenger trains have been widely used nationwide, which play increasingly important roles in the railway passenger transport market; to meet the diversity requirements of EMU passengers, this paper discusses the types and distribution methods of breakfast, dinner, snack foods, etc. Firstly, catering principles and constraints of passenger catering center were analyzed, and then an optimized model was put forward for the scale problem of passenger catering center for high-speed railway, finally an example for the catering center scale of Tianjin railway hub was calculated, the result shows that the model could solve the catering center problem reasonably.