A Simulation Research for Fare Collection Equipments on Tiyuchang Station in Xi’an Subway

The Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) system is a kind of infrastructures for urban rail transit and is widely used in the subway system around the world. It is an important problem to determine the setting number of AFC equipments. While setting too little equipments, there will be congestion and may cause security problem. And setting too many will bring waste. This paper uses simulation method to study this problem for Tiyuchang station of Xi’an subway. It uses its own queuing simulation software for AFC equipments to analyze the passenger data of Tiyuchang station and gives suggestion based on simulation results.