Modeling pedestrian movement at the hall of high-speed railway station during the check-in process

Tie-Qiao Tang, Yi-Xiao Shao and Liang Chen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017, vol. 467, issue C, 157-166

Abstract: With the rapid development of high speed railway (HSR), the pedestrians at HSR station have been very crowded since the demand of passengers rapidly increases. In this paper, we use a cellular automaton (CA) model to study the passengers’ motion at the hall of HSR station during the check-in process. The simulation results show that the passenger’s arrival rate in the hall and the service efficiency of ticket barrier have significant effects on the complex phenomena occurring in the hall, the boarding efficiency and the number of passengers in the hall during the check-in process. The simulation results can help readers to better understand the passengers’ motion behaviors, the complex phenomena occurring in the hall during the check-in process, and what factors influence the boarding efficiency.

Keywords: High-speed railway station; Check-in; Pedestrian flow; Queuing; Cellular automaton model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.10.008

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