China’s transportation industry has made great achievements in the past 40 years of reform and opening up. At the same time, it has gradually accumulated a series of problems. These problems have led to closer and more complex social and econom...
There are several accidents in China’s high-speed railways where passengers fall off the platform every year. In response to the risks of falling off high-speed railway platforms associated with passenger overcrowding, this study explores the p...
Subway station emergencies are gradually increasing in China. The aim of this research is to study the effects of “Dist”, “Pedestrian flow” and “Crowd density” on the heterogeneity of passengers’ decision-making preference and explore the relationshi...
Passenger density is a major factor influencing indoor climate conditions and the corresponding energy consumption in the transfer halls of metro transportation hubs. In this study, passenger flow in a subway transfer hall in Beijing was measured acr...
With the continuous integration of rail transit and urban development, station-centered high-density construction often expands outward and forms a point-axis development pattern. As a result, the influence areas of adjacent stations increasingly ove...
With the emergence of all kinds of location services applications, massive location data are collected in real time. A hierarchical fast density clustering algorithm, DBSCAN(density based spatial clustering of applications with noise) algorithm based...
High-density land uses cause high-intensity traffic demand. Metro as an urban mass transit mode is considered as a sustainable strategy to balance the urban high-density land uses development and the high-intensity traffic demand. However, the capaci...
To unravel the general relationship between bus travel and land use around bus stops and along bus routes and to promote their coordinated development, this paper explores a method to estimate passenger flow volumes from and to bus stops based on lan...
A macro network loading model for multi-flow lines, time varying, and pedestrian congestion is proposed. The station hub is abstracted as a network of different types of nodes, and the flow of passengers at each node is calculated in real time for th...
Inefficient land reuse has emerged as a critical pathway for the sustainable development of urban spaces. Efficient land development in megacities’ industrial heritage areas is heavily influenced by the influx of mass passenger flows from new s...
Crowd management at turnstiles in metro stations is a critical task for ensuring safety, efficiency, and comfort for passengers. A methodology based on observation and microsimulation provides an advanced understanding and optimization of crowd flow...
This study analyzes inter-regional traffic patterns and network structures using origin–destination (OD) data. Block modeling, a method that clusters nodes performing similar roles within a network to identify functional regional structures, di...
Aiming at the problem of metro operation and passenger transport organization under the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a collaborative determination method of train planning and passenger flow control is proposed to reduce the train load...
This study addresses the challenging problem of increasing passengers’ travel efficiency while lowering the infection transmission risk at metro stations during COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve this objective, we deploy Anylogic software and formu...
In current transportation hubs, passengers travelling with wheeled luggage or suitcases is a common phenomenon. Due to the fact that most luggage occupies a certain space in dense passenger crowds with high mass inertia, its abnormal motion, such as...
Passenger flows among cities, at both the domestic and international levels and in different countries and regions, have been studied for forecasting purposes. This paper seeks not a forecasting mechanism, but to understand, by analyzing passenger or...
The role of high-speed rail (HSR) in facilitating the spatial restructuring of regional and urban networks has long interested scholars and policymakers. This study explored HSR-facilitated city-network evolution in less-developed regions through the...
Due to complex layouts and multimodal passenger interactions of integrated transport hubs, it is prone to issues of slow evacuation and elevated risks. Consequently, accelerating passenger circulation and improving vehicle utilization have become cri...
Peak-hour congestion in metro systems poses significant challenges to operational reliability and passenger experience. This study investigates a coordinated operational strategy that integrates passenger flow control, reservation-based entry, and sk...
Traditional passenger transport corridor identification methods fail to effectively capture the spatiotemporal dynamic characteristics of passenger flows in complex urban rail transit networks. This study proposes a novel passenger transport corridor...
Urban rail transit stations serve as pivotal hubs that facilitate the advancement of diverse economic activities. Based on different types of metro stations, the sustainable and coordinated development of public transport and land use can be achieved...
This paper proposes a graph residual gated recurrent network subway passenger flow prediction model considering the flat-peak characteristics, which firstly proposes the use of an adaptive density clustering method, which is capable of dynamically di...
Owing to the increased use of urban rail transit, the flow of passengers on metro platforms tends to increase sharply during peak periods. Monitoring passenger flow in such areas is important for security-related reasons. In this paper, in order to s...
The functionality of railway platforms could be assessed by level of service concepts. They describe interactions between humans and the built environment and allow one to rate risks due to overcrowding. To improve existing concepts, a detailed analy...
The resurgence of passenger flows after the pandemic poses a significant challenge to the safe operation of rail transit. Therefore, adopting the waiting hall of an ultralarge railway station hub as an example, thermal radiation and evacuation simula...
In the metro operation environment, guiding signs provide direction and route conversion instructions to pedestrians. In metro stations with massive passenger flow, the rationality of sign setting would exert distinct effects on the efficiency of pas...
Accurately identifying the functional characteristics of urban rail transit stations and classifying them accordingly helps uncover passenger flow patterns and optimize resource allocation, thereby enhancing the coordination efficiency of multimodal...
Grasping the effective carrying capacity of airport hub subway stations in real-time serves as the foundation for enhancing the safety assurance capability of the hub. Starting from the perspectives of multiple subsystems, including people, stations,...
To address the issues of slow convergence and large errors in existing metaheuristic algorithms when optimizing neural network-based subway passenger flow prediction, we propose the following improvements. First, we replace the random initialization...
The efficiency of a metro station is determined by the transfer capacity it has on the platform. This is the critical area and the primary motivation for this research. This study analyzed the impact of platform typology on the efficiency and capacit...
Congestion and queues are crucial factors in high-passenger flow areas, affecting both traffic efficiency and pedestrian comfort. Ensuring pedestrian safety in bottleneck areas is of utmost importance, and understanding flow characteristics is essent...
Metro stations are essential for daily commuting, but overcrowding due to increased demand can severely impact infrastructure quality and passenger experience. The Level of Service (LOS), a key indicator of congestion, is influenced by factors such a...
Due to the highly developed rail transit over the past decades, the phenomena of complex individual self-organized behaviors and mass crowd dynamics have become a great concern in the train station. In order to understand passengers’ walking-ed...
Pedestrian monitoring in crowded areas like train stations has an important impact in the overall operation and management of those public spaces. An organized distribution of the different elements located inside a station will contribute not only t...
The emergency evacuation route planning of cruise ships directly affects the safety of all crew members and passengers during emergencies. Research on the planning of emergency evacuation routes for cruise ships is a frontier subject of maritime safe...
High-density commercial interchange hubs are important components of transit-oriented urban regeneration. However, high passenger flow does not necessarily generate sustained underground-space vitality. This study examines the Licun high-density comm...
Exploring the relationship between land use characteristics and ridership in railway station areas provides crucial decision-making support for station area planning. Previous research has mostly focused on subways, with a lack of studies on the land...
With the prosperity of the economy and the continuous expansion of the port area, container trucks have become the main means of transportation on port roads. Traditional traffic flow research mainly focuses on passenger cars. In view of the unique c...
Transportation infrastructure promotes the regional flow of production. The construction and use of transportation infrastructure have a crucial effect on climate change, the sustainable development of the economy, and Green Total Factor Productivity...
Recently, population density has grown quickly with the increasing acceleration of urbanization. At the same time, overcrowded situations are more likely to occur in populous urban areas, increasing the risk of accidents. This paper proposes a synthe...
The urban metro system has been widely appreciated as the most important component in urban infrastructures. It plays a critical role in promoting urban social and economic development, and particularly in reducing the urban traffic congestion. Howev...
With accelerating urbanization, the development of rail transit systems—particularly subways—has become a key strategy for alleviating urban traffic congestion. However, existing studies on subway station site selection often lack a spati...
Evaluating transit-oriented development (TOD) efficiency in metro station areas remains challenging, as the traditional “Node–Place” model gives limited consideration to guiding factors and struggles to account for inter-regional fl...
In the process of global urbanization, the shortage of land resources and traffic congestion are prominent. China’s urban rail transit has developed rapidly in recent years. At present, the public transport-oriented Transit-Oriented Development...
The purpose of this research was to develop a simple, cost-effective, but enough efficient solution for locating, tracking and distribution analysis of people and/or vehicle flowing, based on non-intrusive Bluetooth sensing and selective filtering al...
Laboratory-based certification cycles systematically underestimate real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. On-board diagnostics (OBD-II) telemetry offers a low-cost alternative, yet most published approaches rely on mass air flow (MAF) sensors...
Background: In recent decades, the size and passenger capacity of cruise/passenger ships has been associated with noticeable growth; in turn, this has created significant concerns regarding the adequacy of existing evacuation protocols during an &ldq...
The operation of the subway system necessitates a comprehensive understanding of passenger flow characteristics at station locations, as well as a keen awareness of the average travel distances at these stations. Moreover, the travel distances at the...
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County transit is an important mode that connects the county center with the surrounding countryside. This paper addresses the problem of unreasonable transit network planning, inconvenient operational optimizations, and protections in the country tr...
Underground transport hubs must accommodate concentrated passenger arrivals in constrained multilevel spaces. Aggregate demand and period-average density offer limited guidance on whether crowding calls for geometric modification, facility reconfigur...
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