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The planning of public transport infrastructures for urban environments is based on guidelines and handbooks, defining minimum requirements and best practice approaches. In particular, for critical or heavy utilized infrastructures, these guidelines are ideally complemented by detailed investigations based on simulations, sometimes down to microscopic level and including multi modal transport. This work presents the development of a novel quick assessment tool for evaluating and comparing various types of tram stations in different situations. The assessments are based on infrastructure characteristics, likes station dimension, location of obstructions and passenger demand and their spatial distribution at certain times. The tool will be used to quickly assess the effects of a certain station type and passenger demand on dwell times and passenger comfort. The described methodology has been developed in cooperation with the public transport authorities Vienna - Wiener Linien - and is based on data collection, model extension with focus on conflict situations and mobility restricted passengers, and scenario specific microscopic simulations for dwell time analysis.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP025 Standing Committee on Public Transportation Planning and Development.

18-02499

English

12p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Dwell time; Evaluation and assessment; Infrastructure; Microsimulation; Passenger comfort; Public transit; Rail transit stations; Travel demand; Trolley cars; Urban areas

Vienna (Austria)

Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02499

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:36AM