Grave-sweeping is one of the popular special events in Asian cities,especiallyin Chinese societies,in which families express filial piety to their ancestors during two traditional grave-sweeping festivalsin a year.The...Grave-sweeping is one of the popular special events in Asian cities,especiallyin Chinese societies,in which families express filial piety to their ancestors during two traditional grave-sweeping festivalsin a year.The extraordinary high travel demandis often attracted to columbaria within a relative short period around the festivals,and induces severe impacts to the local traffic.It is challenging for the government and private operators to formulatea public transport service setting to satisfactorily cater all the visitors'travel demand.This paper aims to proposean optimization frameworkto identifythe optimalprovisions of public transport services for columbarium trips to achieve consumer surplus or profit maximization.Numerical studies are carried out usingthe travel demand data collected from a selected columbarium,to examine the effects of different public transport service settings to the policyobjectivesin variouscases.The modelresults showthat the current situation is neither consumer surplus nor profit optimum.Improvement schemes are suggested in relation to allow various fares during different visit periods and provide multiple public transport feeder services to serve the visitors during the high travel demand period.展开更多
基金supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(HKU7026-PPR-12).
文摘Grave-sweeping is one of the popular special events in Asian cities,especiallyin Chinese societies,in which families express filial piety to their ancestors during two traditional grave-sweeping festivalsin a year.The extraordinary high travel demandis often attracted to columbaria within a relative short period around the festivals,and induces severe impacts to the local traffic.It is challenging for the government and private operators to formulatea public transport service setting to satisfactorily cater all the visitors'travel demand.This paper aims to proposean optimization frameworkto identifythe optimalprovisions of public transport services for columbarium trips to achieve consumer surplus or profit maximization.Numerical studies are carried out usingthe travel demand data collected from a selected columbarium,to examine the effects of different public transport service settings to the policyobjectivesin variouscases.The modelresults showthat the current situation is neither consumer surplus nor profit optimum.Improvement schemes are suggested in relation to allow various fares during different visit periods and provide multiple public transport feeder services to serve the visitors during the high travel demand period.
