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Walking speed is a key element in planning of transport facility and it also governs many other factors which are often ignored. It is very pertinent to judge, which human factors are having significant influence and need to be considered for further research. Pedestrian flow data has been collected at two different stations varying in its functional activity. Present paper aims to develop the method for investigating the effect of human factors on walking speed and hence stairway facility as a whole. Hence, uninterrupted pedestrian data is considered for detail analysis on effect of human factors and its influence on average walking speed. Total 49 various combinations of gender, age, luggage condition and directional movement are taken into account for speed analysis. With the help of statistical tool, the impact analysis of human factors on walking speed at stairways are reveled, separately. The results of the study show that average walking speed of female pedestrian is 10% lower than the male. It is also observed that the elder pedestrian walk 55% lower speed than younger counterpart. Considering functional activity of station having higher percentage of daily commuters at suburban station, it is found that each group (gender, age) of pedestrian walk faster than the pedestrian at intercity station. Luggage carrying activity is observed to be significantly influencing walking speed and it reduces speed dramatically up to 32% at stairways. More than double reduction in walking speed at stairway is noted with luggage carrying activity (22%) at intercity station as compared to suburban station. Higher reduction of 9% and 13% is noted in walking speed of female pedestrians in descending and ascending direction, respectively for wider width. Whereas, 12% and 14% reduction is noted in case of narrow width, which implies that average walking speed decreases with decrease in stairway width. Further, study results provide good insight into the human factors and its influence on walking speed at stairways. These results may be useful and add new information to the state-of-the-art for developing the simulation model for specific pedestrian groups and operational monitoring under similar conditions. The study results can be also useful for ongoing efforts of developing HCM in India.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Standing Committee on Pedestrians.

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17-06476

English

19p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Commuters; Human factors; Location; Pedestrian flow; Rail transit stations; Speed; Stairs; Walking

India

Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06476

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 12:38PM