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Title:

Empirical Study of Bidirectional Movement on Stairway at a Suburban Railway Station in India

Accession Number:

01555161

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Study analysis has been carried out to comprehend the influence of bi-directional movement at a stairway inside Dadar railway station in Mumbai, India. Collected data were used for developing the fundamental macroscopic speed-flow relationship. Based on directional distribution ratio, available space for individual direction was found through acquisition of coordinates. The result of this study shows that unbalanced distribution ratio reduces the average walking speed in individual direction as well as capacity of the stairway. The effect of bi-directional movement is found to be more significant, when distribution ratio decreases from 0.6 in descending direction, making ascending flow more dominant. Maximum capacity is obtained at distribution ratio of 0.6. At this ratio, descending flow is highly influenced with opposing minor flow by maximum conflict between two streams resulting into highest difference in the walking speed of both directions. The methodology and the results obtained in the present study can be useful for ongoing efforts to developing an Indian Highway Capacity Manual (Indo-HCM), which in turn may be used for optimizing the pedestrian flow on a given stairway coupled with the planning of other alternative pedestrian facilities at railway stations. The empirical observations in form of snapshots for varying proportions of bi-directional pedestrian flow also may be quite useful for developing and calibrating simulation models to replicate the field conditions.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-3892

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Shah, Jiten H
Joshi, Gaurang J
Parida, Purnima M
Arkatkar, Shriniwas S

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Highway Capacity Manual

Uncontrolled Terms:

Bidirectional flow

Geographic Terms:

Mumbai (India)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-3892

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:16PM