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Observation, simulation and optimization of the movement of passengers with baggage in railway station

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  • Zhi Ming Fang

    (Shanghai Key Laboratory of Engineering Structure Safety, Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science, Tongji University, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China)

  • Wei Lv

    (Research Center for Crisis & Hazard Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China)

  • Li-Xue Jiang

    (Shanghai Key Laboratory of Engineering Structure Safety, Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China)

  • Qing-Feng Xu

    (Shanghai Key Laboratory of Engineering Structure Safety, Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China)

  • Wei-Guo Song

    (State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China)

Abstract

To propose method that can optimize the movement efficiency of passengers in the railway station and then guarantee the personal security under emergency case, we did experimental and modeling research on the movement behavior and characteristics of the passengers in a railway station. Observation experiments were conducted to analyze the process of passengers catching trains and leaving the station, through which, the phenomena of lane changing and dislocation were found in a straight channel, and seven categories of baggage were also identified in the crowd. Analysis shows that personal speed would rise as the increasing size of the baggage. A modified lattice gas model focus on the passengers carrying baggage was further built to study passengers movement characteristics. Using this model, the effect of pause probability of passengers and the effect of channel width on movement efficiency were analyzed, according to which, a management strategy to promote the flow rate of crowd in railway station was proposed. This study may be useful to study on evacuation of the railway station, control of the passengers and formulate pre-proposal on emergency evacuation.

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  • Zhi Ming Fang & Wei Lv & Li-Xue Jiang & Qing-Feng Xu & Wei-Guo Song, 2015. "Observation, simulation and optimization of the movement of passengers with baggage in railway station," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 26(11), pages 1-15.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:26:y:2015:i:11:n:s0129183115501247
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183115501247
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    1. Shi, Zhigang & Zhang, Jun & Shang, Zhigang & Fan, Minghao & Song, Weiguo, 2022. "The effect of obstacle layouts on regulating luggage-laden pedestrian flow through bottlenecks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 608(P1).
    2. Zhou, Min & Ge, Shichao & Liu, Jiali & Dong, Hairong & Wang, Fei-Yue, 2020. "Field observation and analysis of waiting passengers at subway platform — A case study of Beijing subway stations," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 556(C).
    3. Shi, Zhigang & Zhang, Jun & Shang, Zhigang & Song, Weiguo, 2024. "Collision avoidance behaviours of luggage-laden pedestrians," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 639(C).
    4. Shi, Zhigang & Zhang, Jun & Song, Weiguo, 2021. "Where luggage-related facilities should be placed along passageways in traffic hubs: Right, left, or in the middle?," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 583(C).
    5. Qiu, Guo & Song, Rui & He, Shiwei & Yin, Weichuan, 2018. "The pedestrian flow characteristics of Y-shaped channel," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 508(C), pages 199-212.

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