Reliability of Stockholm Subway - Index of

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction .................................................................................................. 9
1.1 Background and Motivation .............................................................................. 9
1.2 Problem Description ........................................................................................ 11
1.3 Research Objectives......................................................................................... 16
1.4 Thesis Content and Organization .................................................................... 16
Chapter 2: Literature review ........................................................................................ 17
Chapter 3: Methodology of data analysis ..................................................................... 21
3.1 Measures of punctuality ................................................................................... 21
3.1.1 On-time performance .................................................................................... 21
3.1.2 Deviation from scheduled departure ............................................................. 21
3.1.3 Dwell times distribution ................................................................................ 22
3.1.4 Travel times ................................................................................................... 22
3.1.5 Headway adherence ...................................................................................... 23
3.2 Measures of regularity ..................................................................................... 24
3.2.1 Headway distribution .................................................................................... 24
3.2.2 Waiting times ................................................................................................ 25
3.3 Analysis ........................................................................................................... 26
3.4 Assumptions and limitations ........................................................................... 27
Chapter 4: Description of the Stockholm subway system ........................................... 29
4.1 Stockholm subway ........................................................................................... 29
4.1.1 Stockholm ..................................................................................................... 29
4.1.2 History of Stockholm subway ....................................................................... 29
4.1.3 Stockholm subway nowadays ....................................................................... 30
4.2 Green Line ....................................................................................................... 32
4.2.1 Line description............................................................................................. 32
4.2.2 Main terminals .............................................................................................. 35
4.2.3 Peak hours ..................................................................................................... 38
4.2.4 Signaling system ........................................................................................... 40
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