The Impact Of Differing Door Widths On Passenger Movement Rates
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
155
Pages
11
Page Range
53 - 63
Published
2015
Size
1,029 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/CRS140051
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
N. G. Harris, Ø. Risan, S.-J. Schrader
Abstract
Increases in rail traffic are putting pressure on capacity, especially in older systems. In urban railways, capacity is determined by station stops, including the physical dimensions of trains and platforms, and the behaviour of passengers. Previous research has identified a range of factors which affect the rates at which passengers alight from, and board, trains, but train door width may not be as significant a factor as once thought. Using data from a worldwide set of operational surveys, this paper sets out a number of hypotheses to explain this, noting that other constraints (including difficulties in measuring passenger movement rates, the interior design of trains and (crucially) the positioning of boarding passengers on platforms) may be more important.
Keywords
rail transport, stations, planning, passenger behaviour