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Effects of Countdown Displays in Public Transport Route Choice Under Severe Overcrowding

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The paper presents a route choice model for dynamic assignment in congested, i.e. overcrowded, transit networks where it is assumed that passengers are supported with real-time information on carrier arrivals at stops. If the stop layout is such that passenger congestion results in First-In-First-Out (FIFO) queues, a new formulation is devised for calculating waiting times, total travel times and route splits. Numerical results for a simple example network show the effect of information on route choice when heavy congestion is observed. While the provision of information does not lead to a remarkable decrease in total travel time, with the exception of some particular instances, it changes the travel behaviour of passengers that seem to be more averse to queuing at later stages of their journey and, thus, prefer to interchange at less congested stations.

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  1. Transport Planning – London Underground, 5th Floor Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1 8NJ, UK

    Valentina Trozzi

  2. Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Roma, Italy

    Guido Gentile

  3. City University London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

    Ioannis Kaparias

  4. St James Campus, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Michael G. H. Bell

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Trozzi, V., Gentile, G., Kaparias, I. et al. Effects of Countdown Displays in Public Transport Route Choice Under Severe Overcrowding. Netw Spat Econ 15, 823–842 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-013-9207-5

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