Alleviating a subway bottleneck through a platform gate

BIM-based safety design for emergency evacuation of metro stations

“…By importing the monitoring data of the passenger flow into the evacuation simulation software for emergency evacuation simulation and screening out the walking facilities with high congestion probability, more targeted emergency evacuation guidance could be formulated [29]. Therefore, to perform the screening of evacuation bottlenecks to contribute to the safe design of metro stations, it is necessary to construct a mathematical model of the "route-planning behavior" and "queuing behavior" of passengers in the existing layout design of equipment and facilities.…”

Peak-easing strategies for urban subway operations in the context of COVID-19 epidemic

“…There are different research questions, including the problem of congestion and disruption of public transportation. In existing literature, regarding the question of congestion ( Wang and Zacharias, 2020 ), Muñoz et al (2018) used a platform gate design to ease passenger flow, guide passengers and optimize subway line operations. Tsai et al (2020) solved the problem of passenger crowdedness in public transportation vehicles, using a simulated annealing algorithm to find the suitable number of neurons in a deep neural network.…”

Sensing Technologies for Crowd Management, Adaptation, and Information Dissemination in Public Transportation Systems: A Review

“…Crowding data can be used at the strategic and tactical planning level in several fields, such as increased services, vehicle capacities, networks expansion, headway and timetable optimization (see e.g. [67,68] for solutions applied to the metro/subway scenario). In many studies, the effects of crowding are represented by an additional in-vehicle travel time multiplier, so-called crowding penalty [15], which is typically estimated from historical data.…”