2019 EJRNL PP SELBY COXON 1
Terbatas Yanti Sri Rahayu, S.Sos
» ITB
Terbatas Yanti Sri Rahayu, S.Sos
» ITB
Suburban railways around the world are experiencing a rapid increase in patronage. Higher passenger
densities, particularly during peak times of the day, have
implications for train punctuality, crowding, accessibility
and passenger comfort. Research indicates that the design
of the train carriage and the impediments of platform furniture all have an influence on accessibility and passenger
dispersal, with consequences for service punctuality and
network capacity. Building new concepts in train and station design are expensive undertakings and carry with the
investment a high level of risk. Computational simulation
methods such as agent-based modelling (ABM) can mitigate this risk at much lower cost. Many contemporary
ABM modellers represent passenger flow at a macroscale,
often in a single plan view and with agents travelling at
same speeds and represented crudely as dots on a flat plane.
This paper discusses a body of work concerning the
building of a boarding and alighting simulator at a more
detailed scale where a deeper and richer experience of
crowd behaviour has been modelled using 3D animated
figures. The primary benefit of these methods of evaluation
is that they take away the expense and lack of realism
present in experiments with full-size mock-ups. The outcomes of this work have resulted in sophisticated imagery,
underpinned by technical accuracy that provides a tool for
the development of station infrastructure, train carriage
design with implications on timetabling and network
planning.