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Pedestrian management strategies for improving flow dynamics in transportation hubs

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux

Forecasts predict a strong increase of the demand of public transport facilities in the next decades, close to doubling the number of users in the "Arc lémanique" area. This increase in demand can lead to congestion and poor level-of-service inside transpo ...

2017

Towards Automatic Train Operation for long distance services: State-of-the art and challenges

Daniel Emery

The Automatic Train Operation of a metro line is not so difficult to implement: almost no junction or crossing between lines, rolling stock homogeneity, double track operation, relatively low speed, very simple station track layout, mostly rubber-mounted, ...

2017

Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem

Michel Bierlaire, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Tomas Robenek

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service in light of the recent railway market changes. In order to do so, we introduce the Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem. The originality ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A framework for assessing the usage and level-of-service of rail access facilities is presented. It consists of two parts. A dynamic demand estimator allows to obtain time-dependent pedestrian origin-destination demand within walking facilities. Using that ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in train stations

Michel Bierlaire, Flurin Silvan Hänseler, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux

We present a framework for estimating pedestrian demand within a train station. It takes into account ridership data, and various direct and indirect indicators of demand. Such indicators may include link flow counts, density measurements, survey data, his ...

2015

Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A framework for assessing the usage and level-of-service of rail access facilities is presented. It consists of two parts. A dynamic demand estimator allows to obtain time-dependent origin-destination flows within pedestrian facilities. Using that demand, ...

2015

Schedule-based estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in railway stations

Michel Bierlaire, Flurin Silvan Hänseler, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux

Has been replaced by report TRANSP-OR 150703 ...

2015

Analysis of Ballast Transport in the Event of Overflowing of the Drainage System on High Speed Lines

Giovanni De Cesare, Tamara Ghilardi, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi, Elena Battisacco

The transport of ballast caused by the overflowing of longitudinal drains is a prime example of the interactions between the railway track and its environment. In such conditions, water flowing from the platform, along with debris, may drag the ballast off ...

2015

The effect of magnetic islands on ITG turbulence driven transport

In this work, we address the question of the influence of magnetic islands on the perpendicular transport due to steady-state ITG turbulence on the energy transport time scale. We demonstrate that turbulence can cross the separatrix and enhance the perpend ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Activity pattern modeling: A path choice approach

Michel Bierlaire, Antonin Danalet

In Switzerland, the largest railway stations are called "RailCities" by the Swiss Railways. It emphasizes their transformation into place to live and perform several different activities, similar to a small-scale city. Similar concerns than in urban areas ...

2014

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