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In the pedestrian facilities of urban rail transit stations and department stores, the phenomenon of using the railings to limit the current and make the chaotic pedestrian orderly is common. The paper analyzes the impact of railing geometric features (railing length, railing spacing and railing location) and pedestrian traffic features (pedestrian volume and two pedestrian stream ratio) on the feature of pedestrian weaving zone (PWZ) in horizontal passageway through the geometric feature by the means of controlled experiments. Then, three evaluation indexes (pedestrian weaving intensity, density factor of weaving points, pedestrian trajectory offset ratio) are introduced to analyze the influence rules of the above five factors (pedestrian volume, two pedestrian stream ratio, railing length, railing spacing and railing location) on the PWZ by the means of pedestrian simulation software Legion. Finally, the paper analyzes the railing design dimensions (railing length and railing spacing) by the scatter diagrams of the relationship among the three evaluation indexes and the five factors. After determining the values of the railing length and railing spacing, the paper divides the way of setting up the railings into parallel, dislocation and partition and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of parallel, dislocation and partition by five indexes (pedestrian weaving intensity, density factor of weaving points, pedestrian trajectory offset ratio, capacity percentage and density percentage).

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians.

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15-1550

English

22p

2015

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Corridors; Interior design; Pedestrian areas; Pedestrian flow; Pedestrian traffic; Rail transit stations

Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-1550

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 30 2014 12:34PM