A bottleneck investigation at escalator entry at the Brisbane central train station

Al-Widyan, F; Kirchner, N; Al-Ani, A; Zeibots, M

A bottleneck investigation at escalator entry at the Brisbane central train station

Al-Widyan, F Kirchner, N

Al-Ani, A

Zeibots, M

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Citation:: ATRF 2016 - Australasian Transport Research Forum 2016, Proceedings, 2016
Issue Date:: 2016-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Al-Widyan, F	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kirchner, N https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3018-992X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Al-Ani, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-8954	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zeibots, M https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8758-8713	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	ATRF 2016 - Australasian Transport Research Forum 2016, Proceedings, 2016	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/105654
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 ATRF, Commonwealth of Australia. All rights reserved. Escalators are an essential for passenger’s movements through multi-level rail station concourse environments. Despite the access benefits that escalators provide, they can make travel time longer and pose some challenges when bottlenecks appear at entry. Studying the passenger behaviour of bottlenecks at escalator entrances is essential for planning, designing and control of engineering transportation systems. In this paper we investigate passenger route choice behaviour while approaching an escalator-stair infrastructure set at Brisbane Central train station. A model of an escalator entry bottleneck is formulated. The developed model can explain the queuing characteristics of the bottlenecks and can be readily used to predict congested state occurrence at escalator entry bottleneck. Accurate prediction of bottlenecks occurring around escalators and the estimation of escalator capacity are obtained based on real field data collected from Brisbane Central train station. Results have provided significant insights and computational tools for understanding many features of escalator bottlenecks. Remarkably, escalator capacity at bottleneck points affects the duration and severity of the congested period.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ATRF 2016 - Australasian Transport Research Forum 2016, Proceedings	en_US
dc.title	A bottleneck investigation at escalator entry at the Brisbane central train station	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	090507 Transport Engineering	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Institute For Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Biomedical Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CHT - Health Technologies
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - ISF - Institute for Sustainable Futures
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Students
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Abstract:

© 2016 ATRF, Commonwealth of Australia. All rights reserved. Escalators are an essential for passenger’s movements through multi-level rail station concourse environments. Despite the access benefits that escalators provide, they can make travel time longer and pose some challenges when bottlenecks appear at entry. Studying the passenger behaviour of bottlenecks at escalator entrances is essential for planning, designing and control of engineering transportation systems. In this paper we investigate passenger route choice behaviour while approaching an escalator-stair infrastructure set at Brisbane Central train station. A model of an escalator entry bottleneck is formulated. The developed model can explain the queuing characteristics of the bottlenecks and can be readily used to predict congested state occurrence at escalator entry bottleneck. Accurate prediction of bottlenecks occurring around escalators and the estimation of escalator capacity are obtained based on real field data collected from Brisbane Central train station. Results have provided significant insights and computational tools for understanding many features of escalator bottlenecks. Remarkably, escalator capacity at bottleneck points affects the duration and severity of the congested period.

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