Characteristics of Passenger’s Alighting and Boarding in Metro Stations

Passenger’s alighting and boarding movement is one important component of pedestrian flow in metro stations, which has impacts on pedestrian distribution as well as the train dwell time. Thus, characteristics of passenger’s alighting and boarding in metro stations should be brought to the forefront. In this research, two field surveys are respectively performed in two metro stations in Hong Kong and mainland China at non-peak time to observe passenger’s alighting and boarding characteristics and collect sample data. Passenger’s non-compliance behavior is defined to express the case that boarding passengers start to get aboard even when there are still alighting passengers inside the metro carriage. It is found that passenger’s non-compliance behaviors are commonly existing. Critical time indicators are used to measure the alighting and boarding efficiency. The level of passenger’s non-compliance behaviors is defined, and its effects on the alighting and boarding process is further analyzed. The analysis result shows that the level of passenger’s non-compliance behaviors is basically proportional to the simultaneous alighting and boarding time, and higher level of passenger’s non-compliance behaviors lead to longer passenger’s alighting time and boarding time but it has little influence on the overall transaction time. The data and results of this research could provide reference for verification and validation of pedestrian models and simulations, and it also provides evidences for metro managers to make strategy.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP065 Standing Committee on Rail Transit Systems.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Li, Zitong
  • Lo, S M
  • Ma, Jian
  • Yuen, K K
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2019-1-13 to 2019-1-17
• Date: 2019

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Boarding and alighting; Passengers; Pedestrian movement; Subway stations; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: China; Hong Kong (China)
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01697770
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 19-05131
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2019 3:51PM