Title: Bus and Pedestrian Traffic Management at BRT Stations. A Case Study in Santiago de Chile
Abstract: Pedestrian Traffic Management is the rational administration of the movement of people to generate adequate behaviour in the public space and improve the use of vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure. To measure the management of pedestrian flow in public transport systems, Passenger Service Time (PST) is used. The problem presented in this research is the lack of methodologies for estimating the pedestrian traffic management measurements at the new type of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station in Santiago de Chile called Extra Vehicular Payment Station (EPEV in Spanish). The new stations have different architectural, physical and operational characteristics. As a methodology, we identify the problems of EPEV stations and we classified them in different spaces. Then we simulate eight scenarios with the use of two microsimulation models and the results are compared with the Level of Service of Fruin to obtain design recommendations. From the point of view of the operation of the buses, the main result is that an EPEV must operate with berths assigned to routes, because the average delay per bus is reduced by more than a third relative to no assigned berths. In relation to the best scenario of pedestrian management it is recommended two split EPEV or an EPEV in sawtooth bay, which produces independent movements of buses to and from each berth.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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