Station Crowd Redistribution and Pandemic Resilience

Station Crowd Redistribution and Pandemic Resilience: Access and Egress-Based Solutions to Station Crowding

Krom, Johan Klaas (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Wilkesmann, Florian (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
MONTES ROJAS, ALEJANDRO (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Zhang, Ziru (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Bhatt, Reddhi Uday (TU Delft Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

van Oort, N. (mentor)
Veeneman, Wijnand (mentor)
Ton, D. (mentor)
de Bruyn, Menno (mentor)
van Hagen, Mark (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics

2021-09-15

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on public transportation. With ridership figures decreasing, it has brought a new sense of urgency to the old problem of crowding. Using a structured design approach, this paper presents the results of a project which set out to reduce crowding in Dutch train stations by
absorbing it at the network level. The design which is detailed in this paper uses advance communication of bike parking availability and price incentives on shared bikes as means to stimulate travellers to access or egress the railway system through alternative, uncrowded stations. It is determined that, theoretically, up to 7% of daily travellers in the Amsterdam region might use the system, suggesting that effects on station capacity would be substantial high adoption levels are realised.

Public Transport
Crowding
Socio-Technical Perspective
COVID-19

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fec97fc3-b148-40c0-a610-fc4d92461279

https://aetransport.org/past-etc-papers/conference-papers-2021?abstractId=7205&state=b

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© 2021 Johan Klaas Krom, Florian Wilkesmann, ALEJANDRO MONTES ROJAS, Ziru Zhang, Reddhi Uday Bhatt