Naohiko Hibino

A Study on the Railway Routes Choice Sets for Commuters

The railway route choice behavior analysis involves into tow stages; first generating a choice set and then, modeling route choice behavior based on the given choice set. The main interest of the analysis, until now, has been placed on a choice model itself a certain choice set. On the other hand, the generation process of a choice set has not been analyzed yet sufficiently. Therefore the study focuses on the generation process of a choice set, and proposes the rule of generating route choice set.

A Study on Methods of Acquisition and Usage of Pedestrian Transferring Data at Railway Station

This study focuses on the importance of the acquisition of the passengers transferring data and application to the planning of railway station amelioration, and proposes an obtaining method of the behavioral data. It is important to use the 4-dimensionality path data of the passengers in interchange stations for the improvement of the transfer LOS. Little attention, however, has been given to the acquisition of the data, because the conventional planning has not considered the passengers behavior. The study develops an acquisition system of the 4-dimensionality path data of the passengers from the video images with the help of the image processing technique.