Modeling pedestrian walking behavior in the flow field with moving walkways

He, Mengchen; Wang, Qiao; Chen, Juan; Xu, Shutao; Ma, Jian

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2023.128726

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“…Queueing models will be used to model and analyze the system. For simplicity, I will refer to an escalator throughout, but for most of the models, the resulting analysis holds for a moving walkway [19][20][21] if the corresponding model assumptions are satisfied. Persons using the escalator will often be referred to as customers, adopting queueing theory terminology.…”

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Escalator Etiquette: Stand or Walk? A Systems Analysis

2024

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Users of escalators and moving walkways with sufficient space to accommodate two lanes of users often follow an implied etiquette for the two lanes: one for walking and one for standing (in the US, China, and many countries, the convention is “walk left, stand right”). When there is high volume, e.g., when exiting a subway or train station or at the conclusion of an athletic event, the escalators often experience bottleneck congestion that constitutes the primary source of delay. It has been suggested that during such high-congestion periods, it would be more efficient if everyone just stood in both lanes, with empirical evidence used to support this counterintuitive finding. Simple deterministic queueing models are used to show under what conditions such results hold and also to provide further insights regarding tradeoffs between performance metrics as a function of the distribution of walkers and standers, which could inform practical implementation policies to increase efficiency.

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Escalator Etiquette: Stand or Walk? A Systems Analysis

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“…Queueing models will be used to model and analyze the system. For simplicity, I will refer to an escalator throughout, but for most of the models the resulting analysis holds for a moving walkway [16][17][18] if the corresponding model assumptions are satisfied. Persons using the escalator will often be referred to as customers, adopting queueing theory terminology.…”

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Escalator Etiquette: Stand or Walk? A Systems Analysis

2024

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Users of escalators and moving walkways with sufficient space to accommodate two lanes of users often follow an implied etiquette for the two lanes: one for walking and one for standing (in the US, China, and many countries, the convention is ``walk left, stand right"). When there is high volume, e.g., when exiting a subway or train station or at the conclusion of an athletic event, the escalators often experience bottleneck congestion that constitutes the primary source of delay. It has been suggested that during such high-congestion periods it would be more efficient if everyone just stood in both lanes, with empirical evidence used to support this counterintuitive finding. Simple deterministic queueing models are used to show under what conditions such results hold and also to provide further insights regarding tradeoffs between performance metrics as a function of the distribution of walkers and standers, which could inform practical implementation policies to increase efficiency.

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Effect of moving walkway arrangement on unidirectional crowd flow characteristics

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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

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Modeling pedestrian walking behavior in the flow field with moving walkways

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Escalator Etiquette: Stand or Walk? A Systems Analysis

Escalator Etiquette: Stand or Walk? A Systems Analysis

Escalator Etiquette: Stand or Walk? A Systems Analysis

Effect of moving walkway arrangement on unidirectional crowd flow characteristics

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