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The railway station, which plays an important role in transiting passengers, is experiencing high levels of pedestrian congestion especially during the peak periods at bottleneck. Since the available data on the quantitative analysis of the high-density pedestrian shockwaves at the bottleneck are limited, this paper proposes a Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm for identifying, analyzing and verifying the shockwaves. Results show that the DTW algorithm more elaborately and accurately depicts the pedestrian shockwaves than the fluid dynamic theory algorithm does. The DTW algorithm provides an innovative method to calculate the shockwave velocity conveniently. Moreover, the results show that the shockwave velocity is unsteady, the gathering wave velocity and the evanescent wave velocity are decreased and increased, respectively, throughout time. The mutual influence between followers and leaders is decreased as the shockwave spreads. There is a linear relationship between the shockwave velocity and the density. Additionally, singularities present an interesting match solution set to help potentially to identify the changing pedestrian behavior. This study benefits to enrich the shockwaves of pedestrian characteristics system.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP065 Standing Committee on Rail Transit Systems.

01618707

17-04470

English

16p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Behavior; Bottlenecks; Pedestrian flow; Railroad stations

Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Railroads

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-04470

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:43AM