Calculation Method of the Carrying Capacity of High-Speed Railways Considering the Characteristics of Time Using

There are mainly two computing methods of the capacity of high-speed railway, named “Deduction coefficient method” and “tracking interval method”. The two methods usually treat the time period which the train could use as an integral whole, and calculate a whole capacity of high-speed railway. Without considering the time period’s characteristics, these methods have some disadvantages. For example, the preferences for choosing the time period of passengers will lead to creating some peak hours, in which there are some shortages of the capacity and some off-peak hours, in which there are some overage of the capacity. Based on the disadvantages, this paper considers subdividing the whole capacity hours into lots of time buckets and finds out a new calculation of the capacity of high-speed railway, according to the travel characteristics of passengers and the locations of the high-speed train sections.