Compensation Decisions on Disruption Recovery Service in Urban Rail Transit

Abstract

Ride-hailing, in addition to a common mode of daily transportation, is an attractive option for evacuating stranded passengers and supplementing bus bridging in the early stages of an urban rail transit (URT) disruption. This paper proposes a service supply chain comprised of ride-hailing vehicles, ride-hailing platforms, and stranded passengers wherein the URT and ride-hailing chain together provide emergency evacuation services. The emergency evacuation service supply chain can be coordinated under an effort-based revenue sharing contract. A URT-dominated Stackelberg game model between the URT and ride-hailing platform is then formulated to optimize compensation decisions on the part of the URT; numerical analysis reveals critical factors affecting the said decisions. The main contributions of this paper are two-fold: first, it provides new information regarding collaboration between URT operators and ride-hailing platforms for stranded passenger evacuation, including a ride-hailing platform pricing strategy; and second, the URT compensation decision process is solved via Stackelberg game model while revealing an incentive coefficient parameter for the URT decision and solver.

Mobility operator service capacity sharing contract design to risk-pool against network disruptions

“…Zeng, Durach, and Fang 2012;Neves-Silva 2013) or for Mobility-on-Demand fleets to provide coverage during disrupted service (e.g. Tyndall 2019;Yang and Chen 2019;Fang, Jiang, and Fei 2020;Cebecauer et al 2021). Table 1 presents various methods of service capacity sharing that have been proposed in the literature.…”

Metro system disruption management and substitute bus service: a systematic review and future directions

“…To provide bus bridging service, other than establishing the SB fleet, ridesourcing and car-sharing services are other possibilities. Yang and Chen (2019) proposed alternative services comprised of ride-hailing vehicles and ride-hailing platforms together to provide for emergency evacuation services. Tyndall (2019) provided empirical evidence of significant interaction between public transit and carsharing and investigated to what extent car-sharing services could be utilized as a substitute for service disruption based on a case in Vancouver.…”

“…To supplement SB service, it may be possible to draw upon ride-sharing service, as indicated in Section 5.2 (Yang and Chen, 2019;Tyndall, 2019), which is getting popular, as additional capacity to address the need. It is useful and important to determine to what degree the ride-sharing service can serve as another form of supplemental relief in the presence of congestion and passengers' choices, and its congestion effect on the vicinity of the affected stations.…”

Disruption Recovery for Urban Public Tram System: An Analysis of Replacement Service Selection

“…Zeng et al conducted a study to answer how a tram company should collaborate with a taxi company to provide efficient recovery service during disruption [6]. Yang and Chen investigated the pricing strategy between urban rail transit systems and ridehailing platforms to collect vehicles for stranded passenger evacuation [23]. It has been pointed out that the key deficiencies of bus bridging service, namely slow response, deployment difficulty, and new uncertainties caused by buses [24].…”

“…d. Then the tram company's reduced loss under T-strategy (denoted as T ) is computed as the sum of taxi-service part (denoted as t,T ) and bus-service part (denoted as b,T ) in Eq. (23).…”