Although the Passenger Railway has developed rapidly, the ticketing is still on a first come, first served basis. Gradually, we find it always induced the seats unoccupied and reduced the system rewards because of the halfway-station requests. This paper presents the Railway Passenger Ticketing Optimization Model based on Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) to increase the system rewards. Especially, we propose “the seats risk-rewards” to indicate the system value at risk by different ticketing decisions. Furthermore, this study provides not only the optimal strategy of the seats utilization, but also the system maximum long-term rewards.


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    Title :

    An SMDP-Based Optimization Model for Railway Passenger Ticketing


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Fifth International Conference on Transportation Engineering ; 2015 ; Dailan, China


    Published in:

    ICTE 2015 ; 1859-1867


    Publication date :

    2015-09-25




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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