Figures (15)  Tables (3)
    • Figure 1. 

      Discrepancy of passenger density in a corner.

    • Figure 2. 

      Framework of passenger gathering-scattering analysis.

    • Figure 3. 

      Self-organizing passenger line method in the facility.

    • Figure 4. 

      Schematic diagrams of occupant states at corners.

    • Figure 5. 

      Virtual queue when the target queue is blocked.

    • Figure 6. 

      The topology of the corner in H station.

    • Figure 7. 

      Model network structure of a corner between walking facilities.

    • Figure 8. 

      The observation of volumes of passenger flow in subway stations.

    • Figure 9. 

      Pairwise scatter plots between coefficients of arrival rate and speeds.

    • Figure 10. 

      Relationship between arrival rate and average speed and expected time. (a) Average speed of passengers at prior corriodor. (b) Average speed of passengers at the junction. (c) Average speed of passengers at target corridor. (d) Average speed of passgengers traversing the facility.

    • Figure 11. 

      The blocking probability with various arrival rates.

    • Figure 12. 

      The throughput and expected time with various arrival rates.

    • Figure 13. 

      The comparison of average speeds vary with arrival rates.

    • Figure 14. 

      The throughput of queueing network changes with the width of the target corridor.

    • Figure 15. 

      The comparison results for model verification. (a) Walking speeds of passengers in various scenarios. (b) The walking time of passengers in various scenarios.

    • NodeLength
      (m)
      Width
      (m)
      $ {N}_{s} $$ \mathbb{N} $$ \mathrm{\mu } $UK
      Corridor i104.61702300.4373176
      Corner j44.692920.5954146
      Corridor k84721600.4331146

      Table 1. 

      Configuration of the queueing network of a corner.

    • Observation
      region
      Mean (m/s)Median (m/s)Max
      (m/s)
      Min
      (m/s)
      Standard deviation (m/s)
      Prior corridor0.4490.3760.7590.2300.163
      Corner junction0.2480.2010.4950.1600.119
      Target corridor0.5790.5051.0550.3800.127

      Table 2. 

      Descriptive statistics of the speed of passengers at the corner.

    • CorrelationPassenger volume (peds)Mean time (s)Mean speed (peds/s)r
      Alighting passengers14019.196.2250.237
      Boarding passengers3812.982.9270.236
      Total passengers17823.917.6700.039

      Table 3. 

      Correlation analysis between the volume of passengers and their speed.