Publications de Flurin Silvan Hänseler

Estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in train stations

Michel Bierlaire, Nicholas Alan Molyneaux, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

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 ...

Informs2017

A dynamic network loading model for anisotropic and congested pedestrian flows

Michel Bierlaire, Marija Nikolic, Gael Lederrey, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A macroscopic loading model for multi-directional, time-varying and congested pedestrian flows is proposed. Walkable space is represented by a network of streams that are each associated with an area in which they interact. To describe this interaction, a ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

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

Modeling and estimation of pedestrian flows in train stations

Flurin Silvan Hänseler

This thesis addresses two modeling problems related to pedestrian flows in train stations, namely that of estimating pedestrian origin-destination demand in rail access facilities, and that of describing the propagation of pedestrians in walking facilities ...

EPFL2016

A macroscopic loading model for time-varying pedestrian flows in public walking areas

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Flurin Silvan Hänseler, Thomas Mühlematter

A macroscopic loading model applicable to time-dependent and congested pedestrian flows in public walking areas is proposed. Building on the continuum theory of pedestrian flows and the cell transmission model for car traffic, an isotropic framework is dev ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014