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Title:

Operational and Demand Control Strategies for Overcrowding at Metro Stations
Cover of Operational and Demand Control Strategies for Overcrowding at Metro Stations

Accession Number:

01626123

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

This study investigates the crowding problem at metro stations and strategies to cope with the situation. In particular, the authors introduce both operational and demand control strategies to evaluate and compare their effectiveness in relieving the bottleneck congestion of passengers at the stations. In the operational control strategy, the authors suggest letting some empty trains approach to the downstream stations, without taking any passengers at the upstream ones. While in the demand control strategy, the authors propose to divert passengers to nearby stations by providing relevant information to them subject to a certain level of compliance. As stations along a metro line sometimes are close to each other, the commuters can choose to travel via one of the stations within the system. Therefore, the authors' study integrates the analysis of the crowding problem into a tandem bottleneck system. Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is taken as the case study and both recurrent and non-recurrent situations are examined. It is found that the demand control strategy has a better potential in improving the performance than the operational one, in terms of the ability in relieving the passenger congestion at the stations and lowering the travel cost of commuters, due to its active and dynamic responsive characteristics. It is also found that the operational control strategy has a better performance in terms of the speed in the recovery of level of service from transit disruptions, however it is not cost-effective.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Transfer Facilities.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-02634

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Wong, Y P
Chow, Andy H F

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Hong Kong (China)

Subject Areas:

Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02634

Files:

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 11:00AM