Master equation approach to the intra-urban passenger flow and application to the metropolitan Seoul subway system

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/11/115007zbMATH Open1208.90043arXiv1104.0368OpenAlexW3104040154MaRDI QIDQ3085237FDOQ3085237

Authors: Keumsook Lee, Segun Goh, Jong Soo Park, Woo-Sung Jung, M. Y. Choi 

Publication date: 31 March 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The master equation approach is proposed to describe the evolution of passengers in a subway system. With the transition rate constructed from simple geographical consideration, the evolution equation for the distribution of subway passengers is found to bear skew distributions including log-normal, Weibull, and power-law distributions. This approach is then applied to the Metropolitan Seoul Subway system: Analysis of the trip data of all passengers in a day reveals that the data in most cases fit well to the log-normal distributions. Implications of the results are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0368

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80) Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

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