Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran

Abstract One of the main infrastructures in rail transportation is metro station. Obviously, analyzing and improving the capacity of the stations will ultimately lead to improved performance of the overall network. The capacity of metro station is the ability of the station and its associated spaces...

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Main Authors: Arash Azadpeyma, Ehsan Kashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-12-01
Series:Urban Rail Transit
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40864-018-0098-0
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description Abstract One of the main infrastructures in rail transportation is metro station. Obviously, analyzing and improving the capacity of the stations will ultimately lead to improved performance of the overall network. The capacity of metro station is the ability of the station and its associated spaces to create safety and comfort for the number of passengers expected to use the station. In this research, volume of passengers in the Shohada Square metro station has been used and simulated using VISSIM software. By the results of the simulation and regarding TCRP manual, six scenarios were analyzed in this research and different conditions were evaluated. Two main solutions for improving the performance of station were considered. It shows that the decision to remove the manual ticket purchase location will result in a 43% improvement in the performance of control space section and the approach to reducing the headway of trains from 240 s to 180 s will increase the amount of accessible space for each pedestrian in the platform to 35%. The method presented in this study can be used to evaluate and analyze other metro stations and even other transportation network stations.
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spelling doaj.art-aadae36a04714d27960caef3cb578f7d2022-12-22T03:04:26ZengSpringerOpenUrban Rail Transit2199-66872199-66792018-12-0151394710.1007/s40864-018-0098-0Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in IranArash Azadpeyma0Ehsan Kashi1Department of Civil Engineering, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityDepartment of Civil Engineering, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityAbstract One of the main infrastructures in rail transportation is metro station. Obviously, analyzing and improving the capacity of the stations will ultimately lead to improved performance of the overall network. The capacity of metro station is the ability of the station and its associated spaces to create safety and comfort for the number of passengers expected to use the station. In this research, volume of passengers in the Shohada Square metro station has been used and simulated using VISSIM software. By the results of the simulation and regarding TCRP manual, six scenarios were analyzed in this research and different conditions were evaluated. Two main solutions for improving the performance of station were considered. It shows that the decision to remove the manual ticket purchase location will result in a 43% improvement in the performance of control space section and the approach to reducing the headway of trains from 240 s to 180 s will increase the amount of accessible space for each pedestrian in the platform to 35%. The method presented in this study can be used to evaluate and analyze other metro stations and even other transportation network stations.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40864-018-0098-0Capacity analysisLevel of service in stationSimulation of pedestrian movementVISSIMTransit Cooperative Research Program manual
spellingShingle Arash Azadpeyma
Ehsan Kashi
Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran
Urban Rail Transit
Capacity analysis
Level of service in station
Simulation of pedestrian movement
VISSIM
Transit Cooperative Research Program manual
title Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran
title_full Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran
title_fullStr Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran
title_full_unstemmed Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran
title_short Level of Service Analysis for Metro Station with Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Manual: A Case Study—Shohada Station in Iran
title_sort level of service analysis for metro station with transit cooperative research program tcrp manual a case study shohada station in iran
topic Capacity analysis
Level of service in station
Simulation of pedestrian movement
VISSIM
Transit Cooperative Research Program manual
url http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40864-018-0098-0
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