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Title: | Optimal pricing and seat allocation schemes in passenger railway systems | Authors: | Xu, G Zhong, L Hu, X Liu, W |
Issue Date: | Jan-2022 | Source: | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Jan. 2022, v. 157, 102580 | Abstract: | This paper examines optimal pricing and seat allocation schemes in passenger railway systems, where ticket pricing and seat allocation (or capacity allocation) are both Origin-Destination specific. We consider that the demand is sensitive to the ticket price, and a non-concave and non-linear mixed integer optimization model is then formulated for the ticket pricing and seat allocation problem to maximize the railway ticket revenue. To find the optimal solution of the ticket revenue maximization problem effectively, the proposed non-concave and non-linear model is reformulated such that the objective function and constraints are linear with respect to the decision variables or the logarithms of the decision variables. The linearized model is then further relaxed as a mixed-integer programing problem (MILP). Based on the above linearization and relaxation techniques, a globally optimal solution can be obtained by iteratively solving the relaxed MILP and adopting the range reduction scheme. Two numerical examples are presented for illustration. | Keywords: | Passenger railway system Pricing Seat allocation Global optimization |
Publisher: | Elsevier | Journal: | Transportation research. Part E, Logistics and transportation review | ISSN: | 1366-5545 | EISSN: | 1878-5794 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102580 | Rights: | © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. © 2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The following publication Xu, G., Zhong, L., Hu, X., & Liu, W. (2022). Optimal pricing and seat allocation schemes in passenger railway systems. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 157, 102580 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2021.102580. |
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