英文摘要 |
"Inappropriate railway seat assignment may decrease its load factor, number of passengers, and farebox revenue. Consequently, seat changes allowed in booking system may increase the load factor. To do so, based on bin-packing model and historical sales data, this study firstly breaks multi-stop seats into ''unit seats'' (a seat for a stop; i.e., a unit bin). All passengers have to change seat at every stop (for multi-stop ticket) so as to maximize the load factor. This study proposes a static seat assignment model by switching the assigned seats among passengers to minimize the total number of seat changes. To investigate the applicability of the proposed model, an exemplified case study with 6 train stations and 20 seats is conducted. The results show that the proposed model can increase the load factor from 92% (no seat change) to 98% (seat change allowed) and the booking acceptance rate from 85% (no seat change) to 100% (seat change allowed) at the expense of one booking order with two seats has to change their seats once. The applicability of the proposed model has been proved." |