Rail station passenger congestion: Thinking outside the station
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Presentation for 2015 TRB Annual Meeting. Describes strategies for addressing passenger congestion in rail stations.
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Rail station passenger congestion: Thinking outside the station
- 1. Rail Station Passenger Congestion – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Andrew Nash GreenCityStreets.com TRB Annual Mee<ng 2015 Workshop 194: Rail Sta<on Conges<on Management and Capacity Expansion January 11, 2015
- 2. Victoria Sta<on London (photo: Leonie di Vienna on Flickr)
- 3. St Pancras Sta<on London
- 5. People __________ Space Too many Too little
- 6. (1) Shrink the passengers
- 7. (2) Increase the space.
- 8. Gent Sint Pieters Sta<on
- 11. U-‐4 Budapest
- 13. Reduce the )me passengers spend in sta)ons during crowded periods.
- 14. Think outside the box
- 15. Think outside the box Station
- 16. Trip Planning Allow passengers to choose trains based on: • Expected demand • Peak pricing SBB Travel Planner – www.sbb.ch
- 17. On-‐line Ticke<ng • Reduce <me passengers spend in sta<ons. • Reduce space needed for selling <ckets. www.site-‐project.eu
- 18. Informa<on Apps • Enable passengers to arrive “just in <me” for their trains. • Can you encourage passengers to wait at Starbucks? Qando applicaCon -‐ Vienna
- 19. Ques<ons • Common info apps? • Common <cke<ng apps? • Apps + real incen<ves? • Sta<on wifi (roaming)? SBB mobile app – also shows expected crowding.
- 20. Games Influence behaviour … shic passengers to less crowded sta<ons? … link to exercise apps? Chromaroma (London) hHp://wearemudlark.com/projects/chromaroma/
- 21. Schedule • Does your schedule encourage passengers to wait in sta<ons? • Direct trains or transfers?
- 22. Control Can you meter the number of passengers using your sta<on? Wiener Linien U2 StaCon Stadion Austrian InsCtute of Technology
- 24. (2) Increase space effective
- 25. Analysis TRB: Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual Part 7 – Stop, StaCon, and Terminal Capacity
- 26. SimulaCon slide Pedestrian Simula<on Programs (example)
- 27. Effec<ve space • Eliminate boflenecks • Op<mize furniture • Remove unnecessary items SBB Bern Hauptbahnhof
- 28. Plahorm screens increase effec<ve space. London Bridge staCon (photo: Chris Sampson, on Flickr)
- 29. Channelling pedestrians (good? Bad?). Budapest Metro transfer corridor
- 30. Escalators move passengers off plahorms. Zurich HB Lowenstrasse StaCon – three are beHer than two!
- 31. Befer escalators: • walk right • maintenance • ramps Zurich, Vienna, Vitoria-‐Gasteiz
- 32. Extra exits encourage passengers to s p r e a d o u t on the plahorm. Bern Hauptbahnhof: new exit built as part of Bahn2000 program.
- 34. Trade-‐off: Spending money in sta<ons can … … save money on the network. SMA+ Partner: impact of increased staCon dwell Cme on Takahrplan.
- 35. Trade-‐off: Through sta<ons reduce passenger conges<on and significantly improve service. Malmo Sweden: Citytunneln Project
- 36. Trade-‐off: sta<ons as shopping centres: revenue versus more conges<on? Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (photo: pilot_micha flickr)
- 37. People __________ Space Time Spend Effective
- 40. Andrew Nash helps clients design and manage innovaCve public transport, railway, urban planning and acCve transport projects. Current work includes greencitystreets.com (using informaCon technology for beHer public parCcipaCon), open source railway dispatching applicaCons, public transport planning and acCve transport projects. See andynash.com for details and contact informaCon.