In many daily situations, like at train station platforms, the dynamics are dominated by the presence of waiting and standing pedestrians. However, pedestrians’ waiting behaviour and their interaction with moving persons has rarely been studied to date. This dissertation consists of three publications which aim at investigating the waiting processes at train station platforms. In publication I, measurement and evaluation methods that describe the use of space by passengers at train stations were developed. Therefore, the influence of train arrivals on density, speed and flow profiles were analysed and a new measure for the occupation of space was introduced. Using trajectory data a method to divide boarding and alighting passengers based on their travel paths was developed. Subsequently, differences between boarding and alighting persons were described in terms of travel times and speed. In the next step (publication II), the boarding passengers were subdivided into members of social groups and passengers travelling individually. In order to achieve this, a method to identify social groups in trajectory data based on distances and their preservation over time was developed. Additionally, the waiting places were investigated in dependence of group membership and waiting times. Passengers travelling in social groups were found to position themselves in circles in order to ensure the groups’ communication and therefore exhibit higher space requirements. This often causes groups to wait in front of the entrances. Passengers with long waiting times often wait at undisturbed places.
Space Usage and Waiting Pedestrians at Train Station Platforms
2023-01-01
ix, 95 pages
Dissertation, Univ. Wuppertal, 2023; Jülich : Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag, Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich IAS Series 58, ix, 95 (2023). = Dissertation, Univ. Wuppertal, 2023
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