Masria Mustafa

Assessing Pedestrian Behavioral Pattern at Rail Transit Terminal: State of the Art

An Increasing amount of literature is devoted to discuss about the pedestrian movement pattern in indoor or outdoor environment. A better understanding of human behavior is the key to plan and manage the pedestrian flow especially in a transit terminal. Pedestrians visiting a public space have different motivations and therefore may behave differently. In order to determine the pedestrian behavior, some parameters should be measured such as walking speed, spatial use and person counts. The planners have generated a need to understand the pedestrian movement which behavior could be represented in collective form. A comprehensive review of the existing method in looking at the influencing parameters of the pedestrian behavior to the routes choice and pedestrians flow in relation to the level of service (LOS) and interaction of pedestrian in rail transit terminal is still lacking. Therefore, this paper aims to review the pedestrian movement characteristic in a rail transit terminal. Considering the differences of space requirements among different types of pedestrians and owing to the diverse characteristics of their stature, behavior and surroundings, immediate action on planning the rail based infrastructure is needed.

Assessing Pedestrian Behavior and Walking Speed on Staircase: A Review

Staircases that transport pedestrians from one level to another are important. Pedestrian behavior and walking speeds on staircases must be understood in order to make sure the level of service for the facilities being constructed for the traveler are to their maximum satisfaction. The level of service is based on four criteria that comprise horizontal speed, flow rate space, average, and volume to capacity ratios. In order to achieve good services, a few other aspects that also need to be highlighted during the design and planning stage are direct connection, security, public character, durability, appropriate accessibility, safety, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness. The selection of vertical walking facilities is a result of the relations between pedestrians’ rational conclusion making and characteristic behaviors with the mish mash of external and internal factors. All the aspects discussed must be taken note of so that large reconstruction or renovation costs can be avoided in order to achieve the best service for pedestrian facilities. Good planning and design are cheaper than reconstruction or renovation cost. In addition, the effort toward promoting the use of staircases for pedestrians can also be fulfilled with the comfort, safety, and fun of using a staircase compared to escalator. This can give rise to a healthier life, reduce cost of energy, and also support green technology with sustainability aspect; economy, social and environmental.

Pedestrian Behaviour at Stairways and Escalator: A Review

The pedestrian walking speed is prime importance in a study of design, function and provision of pedestrian facilities. It is quite difficult for the designers to understand the relationship between pedestrian flow characteristic and pedestrian movement by only using their experience and senses. The interactions between pedestrian is hard to understand. Therefore, this paper to review studies from others to better understand the pedestrian flow characteristic, focusing on the pedestrian behavior at stairways and escalator at public transport terminal. This paper addressed the pedestrian movement which includes the walking speed and the relationship between their demographic variables such as age, pedestrian characteristics and also physical characteristic of stairways and escalator.

Time Gap Evaluation due to the Existence of Heavy Vehicles on Urban Expressways

Time gap is important for road user to make decision relative to the lad vehicle at a roadway segment. Theoretically, if the gap is larger than reaction time, drivers would maintain the safe following distance from the vehicle in front or else the probability of vehicle collusion is considerably high. In expressways, gap is important for the purpose of lane changing and overtaking. Due to high allowable speed on expressways, time gap might be affected, especially with the consideration of heavy vehicle existence. This paper attempts to statistically justify any significance correlation between speed and time gap in relative to critical gap acceptance pertaining to the heavy vehicles and cars interaction on urban expressways. Extensive data was collected through video recording before being abstracted and processed by utilizing the TRAIS software. Then, statistical analysis in relative to the speed and time gap for various vehicles interactions are presented. The results showed there is a significant correlation between speed and time gap for all vehicles interaction. When cars following other cars at allowable average speed, the time gap is relatively low leading to a lower critical gap acceptance as compared to the situation with the existence of heavy vehicles.

An Analysis of User Satisfaction on Public Transport Terminal Based on Users Survey

The main objective of this research is to do an analysis of the user satisfaction on the service provided by a public transport terminal by distributing the questionnaire. The survey had been carried out to the users of two public transport terminals which are Terminal One Seremban and Klang Sentral. These terminals had been recently upgraded with a variety of facilities but there were still complaints from the users about their deficiencies. The methods used were face to face interview and questionnaires distribution to the users of the terminals. The data obtained was analyzed by weighted parameter method to determine the satisfaction level. From this study, it had been determined that the most user consideration was safety and security and Cleanliness and comfort of the terminals as their top priority, followed amenities, information and lastly access and connection.

Pedestrian Egress Behavior During Classroom Evacuation: A Simulation Approach

Pedestrians evacuation is a multi-agent system which composed of pedestrians with interaction. Usually, special flow of pedestrians’ evacuation occurs in emergency situation such as in case of fire. Interactions between pedestrians become more complicated, when all pedestrians moving towards a bottleneck area. The objective of this study was to examine the egress behavior of pedestrians during panic situation in a classroom environment. The results revealed that the pedestrians behave aggressively in order to evacuate themselves from the bottleneck area and different number of exit in the classroom gives different route choice during the evacuation process.

Modeling Pedestrian Behavior in Rail Transit Terminal

This paper concerns a review of the existing research in pedestrian behavior in rail transit terminal. A comprehensive review of the existing method and model are looking at the parameters of the pedestrian behavior and flow in relation to the pedestrian interaction and evacuation planning in rail transit terminal. It is shown in the review that a lack of an overall and detailed consideration of pedestrian behavior studies along the area of rail transit terminal in Malaysia. The necessity to integrate transportation engineering and pedestrian model is important where it will be a start to an upcoming research related to a development of safety management system of pedestrian in term of evacuation strategies and performances in rail transit. This can be a reference point for the traffic engineer to design walking infrastructures for many other public transit areas in Malaysia.