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As passenger railway demand has increased, this has put increasing pressure on capacity. In urban areas, railway line capacity is determined by station stops, and the movement of passengers on and off trains at stations is therefore critical. Understanding and quantifying the factors which determine boarding and alighting rates is essential if railways are to manage these issues appropriately. Although a number of individual researchers have examined passenger flow rates in particular conditions, this study has had access to an international dataset of passenger movements at almost 130 locations. Collection of background information on train and platform characteristics has supported data on passenger flow to provide 17 possible independent variables. Simple regressions have limitations of correlation and choice of functional form which have been overcome in this work by using a multivariate fractional function approach. This has enabled the derivation of statistically-significant parameters to explain passenger boarding and alighting, with seven variables providing the vast majority of explanatory power. However, although it is still believed to be an important factor, door width was not one of the isolated variables, being subject to a threshold width value which makes the identification of an appropriate functional form very difficult.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP015 Transit Capacity and Quality of Service. Alternate tltle: Impact of Urban Rail Boarding and Alighting Factors

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14-2750

English

13p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Boarding and alighting; Passengers; Railroad stations; Railroad transportation; Urban transit

Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2750

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:56PM