Abstract:Urban mass transit is playing a significant role in supporting and promoting urban development. An important indicator for the planning and design of urban rail transit may be succinctly summarized by passenger flow models within a peak hour; one important feature of the model is the maximum singledirection flow. To determine this feature, it is necessary to forecast passengers’ departure time and route choice during a peak period. As the basis of this process, the peakperiod stationtostation origindestination (OD) matrix reflects passengers’ travel needs. This paper tests the traditional gravity models to find the pattern that forecasts the peakperiod stationtostation OD matrix in urban rail transit. A realworld case study of Chongqing, China, is used as a model performance measure. To alleviate its overestimation when the effect of the deterrence function between two stations is too small, the gravitymodelbased peak period coefficient (PPC) model is introduced. By comparing the PPC and gravity models using the same dataset, the results indicate that the PPC model is superior to the gravity model. The standard deviation of the PPC model is 12.90 passengers, which is 56.02% lower than that of the gravity model, which is 29.33 passengers.