Passenger Queuing Analysis Method of Security Inspection and Ticket-Checking Area without Archway Metal Detector in Metro Stations

Bin He; Yaping Liu; Xiaocheng Gao; Fei An; Xikui Lv

doi:10.7307/ptt.v35i5.266

Authors

Bin He Department of Rail Transit, Hebei Jiaotong Vocational and Technical College https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-7887
Yaping Liu Department of Rail Transit, Hebei Jiaotong Vocational and Technical College
Xiaocheng Gao Department of Rail Transit, Hebei Jiaotong Vocational and Technical College
Fei An Department of Rail Transit, Hebei Jiaotong Vocational and Technical College
Xikui Lv School of Traffic and Transportation, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v35i5.266

Keywords:

metro station, security inspection area, ticket-checking area, passenger queuing, transit time, passenger flow recursion

Abstract

In order to avoid the congestion in front of the entrance gate units, it is necessary to analyse and optimise the queuing situation at the planning and design stage. The security inspection area and the ticket-checking area were jointly considered, and a queuing congestion analysis method was proposed. Firstly, the research problem was stated. Then, the problem of calculating the number of passengers in each subarea at any time was transformed into the problem of calculating the transit time of each passenger in each subarea. The transit time was divided into basic transit time and additional transit time. Based on the velocity-density relationship, a quantisation method for basic transit time was proposed related to passenger arrival time. The additional transit time was determined by the moment when the passengers left the subarea according to the sequence of arrival of passengers, the number of queuing passengers in the subarea and the congestion of the subarea to be entered. Finally, the queuing situation of passengers in each subarea at any moment was obtained through passenger flow recursion. Examples showed that the proposed method can deal with multiple working conditions and avoid the tedious and time-consuming scene construction process of the microsimulation software.

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