The longitudinal distribution of passengers waiting on a train platform influences the boarding and alighting time. A smoother, more uniform distribution could benefit both traffic operations and passenger experiences. This paper investigates pedestrian traffic performance and the train operations that it influences in an integrated way by proposing ( a) two in situ solutions to inform passengers and influence their waiting position on the platform, ( b) a specific survey of passenger behavior under these conditions, ( c) a modeling scheme based on a pedestrian microsimulation, and ( d) an example of application to a suburban rail station in eastern Paris, the Noisy–Champs Station on the Réseau Express Régional (RER) A Line. The example reveals a traffic phenomenon of corridor–car interplay that implicates the specific behavior of late passengers and the contribution of this phenomenon to train dwell time.


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    Title :

    Influencing Longitudinal Passenger Distribution on Railway Platforms to Shorten and Regularize Train Dwell Times


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board




    Publication date :

    2017-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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