DESIGN DETERMINANTS FOR PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION FOR EGYPTIAN RAILWAY STATIONS

Modelling Pedestrian Circulation in Rail Transit Stations Using Micro-Simulation

Rail transit with its high passenger capacity and high efficiency has become one of the preferred alternatives to automobile travel. This is evident in the increasing patronage of rail travel especially in urban areas. As a result, many railway stations experience high levels of pedestrian congestion especially during the morning and afternoon peak periods. Traditional design and evaluation pro...

Modelling Interlocking Systems for Railway Stations

Design Assessment of Lisbon Transfer Stations using Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation

This paper addresses predicting the impact of access gates on pedestrian flow operations in terms of levels-of-service, congestion levels, average walking times, delays incurred at the gates, etc. To tackle the problem at hand, pedestrian traffic operations for different station design alternatives are predicted using the microscopic pedestrian flow model NOMAD. This is done for reference situa...

A mathematical model for finding the optimal locations of railway stations

Regarding the importance of competitive advantages among the transportation systems, improving the costumer’s satisfaction is an important factor in attracting them to these systems. In this research, we focus on the effects of constructing new stations on users and a new mathematical model is proposed for this problem. In the proposed model, two simultaneous effects on customers by constructin...

Classifying Railway Passenger Stations for Use Transport Planning – Application to Bulgarian Railway Network

A methodology for the classification of railway passenger stations was developed in this study. Four groups of factors are defined to study the characteristics of the station: potential of the town, importance of the town, infrastructural factors, and characteristics of passengers. In the research we investigated 18 factors and studied 98 passenger stations of railway network in Bulgaria. The m...