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Rail Station Passenger Congestion – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Andrew Nash GreenCityStreets.com TRB Annual Mee<ng 2015
Workshop 194: Rail Sta<on Conges<on Management and Capacity Expansion
January 11, 2015
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Victoria Sta<on London (photo: Leonie di Vienna on Flickr)
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St Pancras Sta<on London
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People __________ Space
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People __________ Space
Too many
Too little
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(1) Shrink the passengers
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(2) Increase the
space.
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Gent Sint Pieters Sta<on
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Antwerp Central Sta<on
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Vienna Hauptbahnhof
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U-‐4 Budapest
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(1) Shrink passengers
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Reduce the )me passengers spend in sta)ons during crowded periods.
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Think outside the box
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Think outside the box Station
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Trip Planning
Allow passengers to choose trains based on: • Expected demand • Peak pricing SBB Travel Planner – www.sbb.ch
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On-‐line Ticke<ng
• Reduce <me passengers spend in sta<ons.
• Reduce space needed for selling <ckets.
www.site-‐project.eu
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Informa<on Apps
• Enable passengers to arrive “just in <me” for their trains.
• Can you encourage passengers to wait at Starbucks?
Qando applicaCon -‐ Vienna
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Ques<ons
• Common info apps?
• Common <cke<ng apps?
• Apps + real incen<ves?
• Sta<on wifi (roaming)? SBB mobile app – also shows expected crowding.
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Games Influence behaviour … shic passengers to less crowded sta<ons? … link to exercise apps?
Chromaroma (London) hHp://wearemudlark.com/projects/chromaroma/
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Schedule
• Does your schedule encourage passengers to wait in sta<ons?
• Direct trains or transfers?
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Control Can you meter the number of passengers using your sta<on? Wiener Linien U2 StaCon Stadion Austrian InsCtute of Technology
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(2) Increase space
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(2) Increase space
effective
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Analysis TRB: Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual Part 7 – Stop, StaCon, and Terminal Capacity
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SimulaCon slide
Pedestrian Simula<on Programs (example)
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Effec<ve space
• Eliminate boflenecks • Op<mize furniture • Remove unnecessary items
SBB Bern Hauptbahnhof
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Plahorm screens increase effec<ve space. London Bridge staCon (photo: Chris Sampson, on Flickr)
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Channelling pedestrians (good? Bad?). Budapest Metro transfer corridor
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Escalators move passengers off plahorms. Zurich HB Lowenstrasse StaCon – three are beHer than two!
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Befer escalators: • walk right • maintenance • ramps Zurich, Vienna, Vitoria-‐Gasteiz
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Extra exits encourage passengers to s p r e a d o u t on the plahorm. Bern Hauptbahnhof: new exit built as part of Bahn2000 program.
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Trade-‐off: Spending money in sta<ons can … … save money on the network. SMA+ Partner: impact of increased staCon dwell Cme on Tak\ahrplan.
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Trade-‐off: Through sta<ons reduce passenger conges<on and significantly improve service. Malmo Sweden: Citytunneln Project
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Trade-‐off: sta<ons as shopping centres: revenue versus more conges<on? Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (photo: pilot_micha flickr)
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People __________ Space
Time Spend
Effective
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