Passenger Flow Simulation at Transport Terminals
Description: Passenger and pedestrian traffic simulation is an important part of building, expanding or redesigning transportation terminal facilities such as airports, train stations, subways and bus stations. These analyzes can help to improve project sizing, transport operations, fleet management and simulation of possible evacuation routes, for example. Pedestrians follow basic rules that have been determined by detailed theoretical studies; they move at predetermined rates, they avoid physical spaces like walls as well as other people, and they use information about people around them to adjust their distances, routes and speeds. This project intends to carry out different pedestrian flow studies in several passenger terminals: bus stations, airports, subway stations, etc. Among these terminals, the first study to be performed will be on an airport model, using the opensource Anylogic software. From this experimental study, we intend to develop other studies that will, according to the lived experience, start from simulations using other pedestrian / passenger modeling tools and / or in the flow simulation in real terminals.
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