Research on Passenger Capacity of Escalator in the Hub

Abstract:

Transportation hub is the highly crowd gathering place, and escalatorwith the hub as the main carrier of passengers’ transferring, pitting and otheractivities, it can ensure efficient flow of pedestrians. In recent years, theutilization of escalators in the building and medium-sized transport hubimproved significantly. Its passenger capacity will directly affect theevacuation of pedestrian flow, and it is an important factor in the escalator.Based on the escalator passenger capacity study of the Hohhot Railway station ,by analyzing the relationships among speed ,density and flow of the pedestrianwho are carried by escalator within the hub in the peak travel period, wecalculate with the actual carrying capacity of the escalator to arrive at anescalator utilization within the hub. And according to the level of utilizationwe submit reasonable proposals to achieve the purpose of improving the hub.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 505-506)
• Pages: 650-655
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.505-506.650
• Online since: January 2014
• Authors: Bing Li*, Min Li
• Keywords: Escalators, Passenger Capacity, Traffic Characteristics

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