Research of Optimal Dynamic Railway Seats Share Strategy

Effectually grasping the seats sharing mode and time is the effective means to improve the utilization rate of the railway transportation capacity.In this paper,through analyzing the organization characteristics of railway ticketing in the case that a passenger train has two boarding stations,the question of optimal dynamic railway seats share strategy was raised.The optimal dynamic seats share strategy is proposed with the objective to obtain the maximum expected passenger ticket sales income(namely,the maximum carried passenger kilometers) and the practical dynamic seats share strategy is also formulated.The practical strategy is easier to be implemented than the optimal strategy.Application extending from two boarding stations to multiple boarding stations is studied.Railway stations can make seats sharing decision according to the advance sale time,the residual tickets and the expecting demand of its anterior stations.Theoretical support is provided for rational seats sharing between and among railway stations.