Reducing Subway Crowding: Analysis of an Off-Peak Discount Experiment in Hong Kong

Reducing Subway Crowding: Analysis of an Off-Peak Discount Experiment in Hong Kong

Increases in ridership are outpacing capacity expansions in several transit systems. By shifting their focus to demand management, agencies can instead influence how customers use the system and get more out of their present capacity. This paper uses Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) syste...

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Main Authors: Koutsopoulos, Haris N. (Author), Lau, Stephen (Author), Au, Tom (Author), Halvorsen, Anne Fire (Contributor), Zhao, Jinhua (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies/SAGE Publications, 2019-02-04T14:49:57Z.
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