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Chin. Phys. B, 2018, Vol. 27(12): 124501    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/12/124501
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Cellular automaton modeling of pedestrian movement behavior on an escalator

Fu-Rong Yue(岳芙蓉)1, Juan Chen(陈娟)2, Jian Ma(马剑)1,5, Wei-Guo Song(宋卫国)3, Siu-Ming Lo(卢兆明)4
1 School of Transportation and Logistics, National Engineering Laboratory of Integrated Transportation Big Data Application Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;
2 Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;
3 State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
4 Department of Architectural and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, China;
5 Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Rail Transit Line Safety and Disaster Prevention, Beijing 100044, China
Abstract  

As a convenient passenger transit facility between floors with different heights, escalators have been extensively used in shopping malls, metro stations, airport terminals, etc. Compared with other vertical transit facilities including stairs and elevators, escalators usually have large transit capacity. It is expected to reduce pedestrian traveling time and thus improve the quality of pedestrian's experiences especially in jamming conditions. However, it is noticed that pedestrians may present different movement patterns, e.g., queuing on each step of the escalator, walking on the left-side and meanwhile standing on the right-side of the escalator. These different patterns affect the actual escalator traffic volume and finally the passenger spatiotemporal distribution in different built environments. Thus, in the present study, a microscopic cellular automaton (CA) simulation model considering pedestrian movement behavior on escalators is built. Simulations are performed considering different pedestrian movement speeds, queuing modes, and segregation on escalators with different escalator speeds. The actual escalator capacities under different pedestrian movement patterns are investigated. It is found that walking on escalators will not always benefit escalator transit volume improvement, especially in jamming conditions.

Keywords:  cellular automaton      pedestrian movement      escalator capacity  
Received:  25 June 2018      Revised:  14 September 2018      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  45.70.Vn (Granular models of complex systems; traffic flow)  
  87.10.Hk (Lattice models)  
  07.05.Tp (Computer modeling and simulation)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71473207 and 71871189), the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Administrative Region, China (Grant No. CityU118909), and the Open Fund of Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Rail Transit Line Safety and Disaster Prevention (Grant No. RRC201701).

Corresponding Authors:  Jian Ma     E-mail:  majian@mail.ustc.edu.cn

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Fu-Rong Yue(岳芙蓉), Juan Chen(陈娟), Jian Ma(马剑), Wei-Guo Song(宋卫国), Siu-Ming Lo(卢兆明) Cellular automaton modeling of pedestrian movement behavior on an escalator 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 124501

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