Station Crowd Redistribution and Pandemic Resilience
Access and Egress-Based Solutions to Station Crowding
J.K. Krom (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
F.L. Wilkesmann (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
A. MONTES ROJAS (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Z. Zhang (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
R.U. Bhatt (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
N van Oort – Mentor (TU Delft - Transport and Planning)
Wijnand W. Veeneman – Mentor (TU Delft - Organisation & Governance)
D. Ton – Mentor (TU Delft - Transport and Planning)
Menno de Bruyn – Mentor (Nederlandse Spoorwegen)
Mark van Hagen – Mentor (Nederlandse Spoorwegen)
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Abstract
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.