In order to improve railway timetables, it is necessary to grasp railway passenger flow in detail including their destinations. However, it is impossible to accomplish this goal by counting the number of on-board passengers only. Therefore, we have developed a method to estimate the passenger flow based on OD (Origin & Destination) matrix data collected from ticket gates in hundreds of stations and timetables of thousands of trains. By analyzing the estimated results, it is possible to obtain the histograms of the number passengers aboard each train for each destination, the number of passengers boarding and disembarking at each station, the number of transfer passengers at each station and other relevant factors.

Copyright (c) 2006 Railway Technical Research Institute