Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram for Train Platforms

Conference paper (2019)

Authors

Jeroen P.A. van den Heuvel Nederlandse Spoorwegen,
S.P. Hoogendoorn Transport and Planning
Copyright: © 2019 W. Daamen, Jeroen P.A. van den Heuvel, V.L. Knoop, S.P. Hoogendoorn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11440-4_40
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2019

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English

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Abstract

The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) relates the flow, density and speed of an entire network. So far, the MFD has been mostly applied to cases where pedestrians and vehicles were aiming to reach their destinations as fast as possible. However, pedestrian facilities involve different behaviours. Especially in train stations, travellers spend more time waiting than walking. Moreover, complex passenger flows (i.e. flows in different directions moving to stairs and escalators distributed over the platform) may occur on the platform, due to passengers. In this paper we show that passenger flows on platforms can be described by an MFD.

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