Train Station Research Articles

Connecting people and places: Analysis of perceived pedestrian accessibility to railway stations by Bavarian case studies

Walking connects different modes of transport and acts as the main feeder for public transport. Nonetheless, ensuring high-quality accessibility for pedestrians to railway stations is seldom evaluated beyond measurable factors such as walking distance and time. Although several studies found differences in calculated and perceived accessibility, little research has so far focused on the factors that are influencing perceived pedestrian accessibility and thus causing these differences. In order to contribute to the current efforts of conceptualizing perceived accessibility, this study explores the factors which determine whether or not people walk to train stations. Potential influencing factors were first derived from a literature review and clustered into six quality criteria (directness, simplicity, traffic safety, security, comfort and built environment). Then, on-site and online surveys were conducted in five Bavarian towns (Germany) to understand the importance of the identified factors and how this differs between different people and places. The results confirm that above all comfort, safety and security factors play an important role for pedestrian accessibility. In addition, significant differences were found between different age groups and city sizes.

Criminality and crime control measures in selected train stations in Lagos, Nigeria

Crime is among the major problems negatively impacting the effective operation of the rail transportation system in Nigeria. Although considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to criminality in public transit stations, there is a paucity of empirical data on the occurrence of the problem within train station facilities. Thus, using routine activity theory as a guide, this study investigated criminality and crime control measures in selected train stations in Lagos, Nigeria. In-depth interview and key informant interview methods were primarily deployed to gather data from 20 train station officials and eight locomotive drivers selected using purposive sampling technique. Results showed that vandalism, pilfering of train station equipment, rooftop riding and ticket evasion were the most commonly recorded forms of crime in train stations in Lagos. Multiple situational and environmental factors, including the presence of abandoned equipment, lax security systems, the construction of train stations in residential neighbourhoods, and poorly illuminated environments were making train stations vulnerable to criminality. It is imperative for the Nigeria Railway Corporation to strengthen existing security architecture at train stations to effectively deter motivated offenders from viewing the public transportation hub as suitable sites for crime perpetration.

Low-emission zones, modes of transport and house prices: evidence from Berlin’s commuter belt

We study the impact of a tightening of a private driving restriction in Germany’s capital, the city of Berlin, on house prices in its affluent suburbs. Using geo-referenced data on train stations, motorway access points and offers of single-family houses for sale from Germany’s leading online property broker ImmobilienScout24 in a spatially staggered DiD framework, we find evidence for sizeable price growth premia for houses located in walking distance of train stations that lie within 30 min commuting duration to Berlin main station. Property located in immediate vicinity (5 min walking distance) of train stations within 30–40 min commuting duration, however, face penalties. Our findings are of relevance for the design of public infrastructure planning policies that seek to accommodate and facilitate changes in local demands for alternative and more environmentally sustainable modes of transport induced by private driving restrictions.

Halep’te Yıkılmış Bir Kültür Mirası: Bayram Baba Tekkesi

Throughout history, Aleppo has been the visiting place of important trade caravans, a cultural city on the pilgrimage route and where people from three monotheistic religions live. For this reason, communities with different religions and beliefs have created institutions where they live their own cultures. The presence of architectural works built in Aleppo reveals how important this city is. Kulliyes, mosques, lodges and zāwiyas, inns, baths, madrasas, hospitals, civil and military buildings, fountains, clock towers, tombs, train stations and thousands of residential architecture are some of them. In the intervening time, some of these works have been neglected and some have disappeared. Despite all this, Aleppo has managed to preserve its identity as a cultural city until today. Bayram Bābā Darwish Lodge, which is one of these works that is an important cultural heritage in the history of Aleppo and has a history of approximately 500 years, unfortunately became the victim of negligence and was demolished in 1982 during road widening works. In this article, the information obtained from various sources about the Bayram Bābā Darwish Lodge and the Bayram Bābā that gave its name here will be evaluated. In addition, important figures who hold the office of shaykh in the lodge and about whom information can be found will be discussed and examples of their works will be given.

Internal resource mobility of a railway administration: A three-phase centralized data envelopment analysis

Railway transportation in Taiwan is not only one of the important means of transportation in the populous western corridor, but also a main mode of transportation in the eastern corridor. However, due to the poor operating condition of its railways, the Taiwan Railway Administration has been running at a loss. To reduce losses and improve performance, the operators of railways in Taiwan should more effectively allocate internal resources between train stations. Since the train stations are managed by the centralized administration, the Taiwan Railway Administration pursues overall performance. Hence, this paper constructs resource allocation methods based on centralized data envelopment analysis, and further proposes a three-phase method to understand the situation involving increased or decreased resources for each train station, and determines the internal resource mobility between train stations. By building resource allocation models, this paper can provide the railway operators with extensive information to effectively reallocate resources.

STUDY OF STABILITY OF TRAIN FLOWS ON HEAVILY USED FREIGHT RAILWAY REGION

The article examines the stability of freight trains in different periods of traffic at the landfillof the regional branch of "Odessa Railway" JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia", which is a "bottleneck" of the railway systemwith the largest seaports in Ukraine. It is offered to analyze the consolidated daily operational indicators onthe main routes of train flows: density at the train station (traffic density per 1 km, tons); average daily speedof trains (km / h); the number of freight trains that have passed (train). For a comprehensive analysis ofchanges in operational indicators in the low (I-III quarter) and high season (IV quarter) of traffic summarizedindicators in the sequence of train flows. This allowed us to identify the most influential train stations for thestability of train traffic. Regularities of influence of operational indicators on the general duration ofmovement of train streams are revealed. Based on the correlation analysis, the influence of passenger trafficon the duration of freight trains on differentroutes has been proved numerically. Correlations can be describedas strong and significant. The interaction of changes in operational indicators on different routes of train flowsat the investigated landfill was revealed. Significant impact on the stability of train flows occurs at trainstations, where sorting stations operate. Increasing the share of scheduled departures in 2019 and working toextend the service in 2020 has reduced the gap between the total duration of trains on the routes to acceptablevalues. A cluster diagram of the relationship between the impact of passenger traffic on the duration of freighttrains on different routes, which allows a comprehensive analysis of the interdependence of operationalperformance of sections in terms of changes in traffic intensity and redirection of trains on parallel lines.

Measuring the impact of heavy rail transport infrastructure on house prices in Melbourne, Australia: a case study of Mernda rail extension project

PurposeThe research examines the impact of heavy rail transport infrastructure on residential property prices in Melbourne at different stages of project development using the Mernda Rail Extension Project as a case study.Design/methodology/approachA difference-in-difference approach is used to quantitatively measure the magnitude of change in the house price at different stages of rail transport infrastructure project development.FindingsWhen controlling for a range of structural, neighbourhood, and locational attributes, the authors find that properties within 800 m from the proposed train station are 8.7% higher in value than those outside 800 m (but within 1,600 m). However, during the project's construction, the project's benefits in the form of house price appreciation are not fully realised. “Unrealised benefit” is attributed to the negative externalities of construction works and apprehensions associated with the project's shelving and time delays.Research limitations/implicationsDepending on the availability of data on residential property transactions in the future, a spatial analysis of rail infrastructure's radius of catchment effect is needed.Practical implicationsFindings from this research are beneficial for policymakers concerned with transport and land use planning, property valuation for taxation and mortgage purposes.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the knowledge of the impact of the rail project on house prices in Melbourne. While there are earlier studies on the topic, there is limited understanding of this prime Australian city attractive to domestic and foreign investors.

“Why fix it if ain’t broke”: Nature and extent of crime in the railway environment in South Africa

This article explores the nature and extent of crime in the railway environment in South Africa. Crimes against Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, Transnet Freight Rail, Gautrain, and commuters are prevalent and the victims are being exposed to serious damage emanating from criminal activities. The challenges and implications for individuals and businesses, rich or poor consumers are recurrent themes in this study. A qualitative research approach was adopted to follow a non-probability purposive sample comprising 25 participants from the South African Police Service Rapid Rail Police Units. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews from research participants deployed in the Division: Visible Policing. The findings highlighted that the most prevalent crimes are cable theft, robberies and malicious property damage. The targeted trains are the Metro trains that operate locally, as they transport many commuters because it is the affordable mode of public transport in South Africa. The perpetrators also target this mode of transport because the train stations have an open system where perpetrators can easily access the entrance, therefore some do not even buy tickets and board the trains illegally. It is understood that Gautrain has a closed system and the security is advanced and watertight because of extra security measures such as the closed-circuit television cameras. Based on the findings, effective implementation of policies to improve safety is essential. Critical dialogues between all relevant.

Experimental Study on Panic during Simulated Fire Evacuation Using Psycho- and Physiological Metrics.

Under circumstances of fire, panic usually brings uncertainty and unpredictability to evacuation. Therefore, a deep understanding of panic is desired. This study aims to dig into the underlying mechanism of fire evacuation panic by measuring and analysing psycho- and physiological indicators. In the experiment, participants watched a simulated train station within which three sets of stimuli were triggered separately. Eye movement and brain haemodynamic responses were collected during the watch, while questionnaires and interviews of emotions were conducted after. The analysed physiological indicators include the amplitude of pupil dilation, the time ratios of fixation and saccade, the binned entropy of gaze location, and the brain activation coefficients. The results of this research indicate that fire evacuation panic can be broken down into two elements. (1) Unawareness of situation: less knowledge of the situation leads to a higher level of panic; (2) Intensity of visual stimulation: the panic level is escalated with increased severity of fire that is perceived.

What drives the allocation of motorways? Evidence from Portugal's fast-expanding network

This study investigates the factors that influenced the allocation of motorways across municipalities in mainland Portugal. Our analysis, based on Poisson Pseudo-maximum Likelihood models, suggests that population size and market potential in 1981 are important determinants of motorway density in 2020. Physical and geographical variables also help explain the spatial distribution of motorway investment, as terrain ruggedness and distance to the coast are negatively associated with motorway density. In addition, we consider the influence of the proximity to historical and pre-existing transport networks on the allocation of motorways; we find that municipalities that are closer to 1800's itineraries, the main roads of the 1945's National Road Plan, and 1981's train stations appear to have higher motorway densities in 2020, but this effect is concentrated in the vast and sparsely populated area of the country that excludes what we term the high-density Portuguese “blue banana”. Interestingly, it is also only in this low-density region that partisan alignment between the municipal and the national levels of government appears to affect the allocation of transport investment, which suggests that motorways are more of a political asset in more remote or less urbanised areas.

Accessibility and Permeability in Transit Area. Case Studies in Jakarta-Depok Train Stations

Accessibility and Permeability in Transit Area. Case Studies in Jakarta-Depok Train Stations

A voyage in the Far East

IntroductionPatient who comes to the Hospital accompanied by the Emergency Services from the Santa Justa train station, coming from Madrid, after being repatriated from Bangladesh.There he was serving a five-year sentence for drug trafficking.He is a patient who has had several hospital admissions at UHSM and clinically prosecuted as a paranoid schizophrenic. In prison, the first years he had no antipsychotic medication and recognizes the presence of auditory pseudohallucinations.Objectivespsychopathological stabilizationMethodscase reportResultsIn the psychopathological assessment upon arrival, the patient was hostile and suspicious, even refusing to take food and medication because he was demanding his freedom. He also relates this point to delirious interpretations of passers-by who approached him at the Madrid airport.During the admission, the patient was referred to Internal Medicine for a global evaluation and analytical tests of his organic situation, finding normocytic anemia without other findings and with good response to the treatment established.The patient’s psychopathological evolution is very favorable. Progressively more approachable and critical of the phenomena of psychotic nature. Interventions are carried out with Social Work for his overnight stay.ConclusionsWe have the odyssey of one of many patients with a mental illness where their life journey leads them to marginal situations and where elements of a legal nature are intermingled; either by the stay in prison itself or by the need for an admission against their will for psychopathological stabilization and to redirect this shipwrecked life course.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

The evolution of accessible train stations in Madrid: A map study approach (2009-2020)

Most of Madrid is covered by an extensive train network that allows thousands of people to commute by train daily. However, some collectives with either permanent or temporary disabilities, may find obstacles that limit their access to the station, the carriages, or both. By studying the information available on graphic maps, which is the common source for passengers to know whether a station is accessible or not before reaching it, the number of accessible stations, and how they have evolved from 2009 to 2020, has been studied. The study has analyzed the degree of inclusiveness that Madrid’s train network provided in the aforementioned period regarding complete accessibility, partial accommodations, and whether the carriages of the arriving trains were accessible. As a result, both the map analysis and quantitative data collection have shown that although the total number of accessible stations increased over the studied period, their irregular variations may reflect the modifications in public regulations. Thus, Madrid can be an example of how to study the level of accessibility in the train network in order to determine the consequences of sprawl in urban accessibility, and how this can hinder full access for all people to every point of the city.

The impact of improved passenger transport system on manufacturing plant productivity

In this paper, we examine the effect of transportation infrastructure on the productivity of manufacturing plants. In particular, we analyze whether improved passenger transportation connections to metropolitan cities positively affect manufacturing plant productivity in peripheral regions. The introduction of the Korea Train eXpress (KTX) high-speed train in 2004 allows us to examine the impact of improved passenger transport. Applying a difference-in-differences framework to plant-level data, we examine whether the productivity of manufacturing plants in counties with high-speed train stations improves more than that in counties without high-speed train stations after the KTX introduction. The results suggest an increase of approximately 5 percent in the productivity of manufacturing plants due to the introduction of the high-speed rail.

The limitations of statues

Historical scholarship on the formation of the state in the United States has focused on the national and state governments and has searched for state power in courtrooms, barracks, and legislative chambers. This article reveals the growth of municipal state power in an unlikely place: the large urban train station, a crucial transportation chokepoint. Using nineteenth-century St. Louis as my primary example, I focus on how both police and non-state actors took advantage of an emergent place of constricted mobility. Rather than imprison people to punish criminality, subalterns caught in the railway panopticon were disciplined according to then-prevailing gender and racial norms. I argue that the intersection of networks there created a place where local police and their allies could surveil, check, and potentially stop more people than in any other place in the urban landscape. This article refocuses the history of state building on a more prosaic location than the halls of government and traces the history of police as enforcers of the racial norms and patriarchal order. Central railway stations became, unintentionally, key sites of state formation and carceral power. This research reveals the spatial heterogeneity of the state's strength, provides a genealogy for contemporary racially inequitable policing, and creates a framework to investigate other places where state and non-state actors can exercise particular power over everyday people.

Development of a planning support system to evaluate transit-oriented development masterplan concepts for optimal health outcomes

There is growing consensus that planning professionals need clearer guidance on features of the built environment that promote health benefits. Concomitantly, the smart city movement has created renewed opportunity and interest in data-driven urban modelling to support land use planning. Planning Support Systems (PSS) are spatially enabled computer-based analytical tools incorporating health-related metrics that apply empirical evidence on built environment relationships with health-related outcomes to inform real-world urban design, urban planning and transportation planning decisions. This paper presents the development of the Urban Health Check PSS to use local empirical data to explore and predict relative health impacts associated with proposed urban design planning changes from alternative new station precinct masterplan concepts. We present a case study where we compare a baseline scenario with alternative design concepts for a new train station precinct in Perth, Western Australia, that incorporated possible built environment interventions. Subsequently, we discuss potential future applications of health impact PSS for the translation and application of health evidence into practice.

Bus Stations in Annaba between Mobility and Attractiveness

Travel and transportation are seen as a necessity for our society and an essential component of social, economic and environmental development. In order to control the use of cars, especially in the city centre, urban planners and researchers are currently considering the question of the interaction between the public transport station, the train station and the city. Supported by the development and improvement of public transport networks, their importance is vital to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. To this end, the city of Annaba (located in the northern-east of Algeria) was chosen to study the relationship between service areas around public transport stations in the city centre. The development and growth of Annaba's agglomeration has had a major impact on travel levels and volumes. Field results state that the urban public transport station

Toward learning dynamic origin-destination matrices from crowd density heatmaps

Knowing the origins and destinations of pedestrians’ paths is key to the initialization of crowd simulations. Unfortunately, they are difficult to measure in the real world. This is one major challenge for live predictions during events such as festivals, soccer games, protest marches, and many others. Sensor data can be used to feed real-world observations into simulations in real-time. As input data for this study, we use density heatmaps generated from real-world trajectory data obtained from stereo sensors. Density information is compact, of constant size, and in general easier to obtain than e.g., individual trajectories. Therefore, the information limitation improves the applicability to other scenarios. We include the absolute pedestrian trip counts from origins to destinations during a brief time interval in an OD matrix, including unknown destinations due to sensor errors. Our goal is to estimate these OD matrices from a series of density heatmaps for the same interval. For this, we compute the ground truth OD matrices and density heatmaps using real-world trajectory data from a train station. We employ linear regression as a statistical learning method for estimation. We observe that the linear share of the relationship between density and OD matrix is estimated successfully. Nevertheless, a portion of the data remains that cannot be explained. We attempt to overcome this difficulty with random forest as a nonlinear model. The results indicate that both a linear and a nonlinear model can estimate some features of the OD matrices. However, there is no clear winner in terms of the chosen metric, the R 2 score. Overall, our findings are a strong indicator that OD matrices can indeed be estimated from density heatmaps extracted automatically from sensors.

The Correlation of Individual and External Factors to Work Fatigue in Employee at PT. Hutama Karya Building Division Project, Integrated Building Soekarno Hatta Airport Train Station

Pendahuluan: Berdasarkan data yang dikeluarkan oleh International Labour Organization (ILO) tahun 2018, menurut Hamalainen 2,78 juta pekerja meninggal setiap tahunnya, 2,4 juta (86,3%) dari kematian tersebut dikarenakan penyakit akibat kerja salah satunya yaitu kelelahan kerja, lebih dari 380.000 (13,7%) kematian karena kecelakaan kerja. Jumlah kecelakan non-fatal hampir seribu kali lebih banyak dibanding kecelakaan fatal, diperkirakan 374 juta pekerja mengalami kecelakaan ini. Tujuan penelitian: untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan usia, status gizi, beban kerja, lama kerja, kualitas tidur dan status merokok dengan kelelahan kerja. Metode: Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian analitik menggunakan desain penelitian cross sectional, untuk mengetahui hubungan antara variabel dependen dengan variabel independen, data dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan kuesioner. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 61 orang di proyek pembangunan integrated building. Hasil: hasil penelitian diperoleh jumlah pekerja yang mengalami kelelahan kategori tinggi sebesar 46 pekerja (75,4%), usia kategori beresiko mengalami kelelahan sebanyak 36 pekerja (59%), status gizi kategori normal sebanyak 50 pekerja (82%), beban kerja kategori berat sebanyak 43 pekerja (70,5%), kualitas tidur tidak normal sebanyak 51 pekerja (83,6%), lama kerja tidak normal sebanyak 47 pekerja (77%) dan merokok sebanyak 52 pekerja (85,2%). Hasil uji statistik chi-square didapatkan variabel kualitas tidur (p value = 0.035), beban kerja (p value = 0.034), lama kerja (p value = 0.014) dan merokok (p value = 0.004) berhubungan dengan kelelahan kerja, sedangkan pada variabel usia (p value = 0.184) dan status gizi (p value = 0.287) tidak berhubungan dengan kelelahan kerja. Kesimpulan: Peneliti menyarankan agar ditingkatkan lagi pemeriksaan kesehatan para pekerja seperti diadakannya medical chek-up.

Node-Place Model Analysis on Attached Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Areas : The Case of Wates Train and Bus Station Area

Wates Train Station (Wates train station) and Wates Bus Station (Wates bus station) are two transportation nodes located in the Wates District moreover provide a wider area in the scale of the Kulon Progo Regency. These two transport nodes are near to each other and intersect within the radius of the TOD area. The presence of the Yogyakarta International Airport in Temon District was projected to increase the transportation intensity on Wates train station yet Wates bus station as the nodes of the current public transport service. This study was aimed to measure the Node - Place (N - P) index on both TOD areas. The Bertolini’s N - P model is a commonly used method on the measurement of TOD performance in terms of the transportation intensity towards land use (activity) intensity. The identifications were based on the TOD theory and the N - P indicators. Measurements were conducted through a weighted multi - criteria analysis. The analysis resulted in the same type of node - place index on both TOD areas, the “unbalanced node”. An unbalanced node indicates poor land use development regards a high transportation capability. Wates train station area has the index of node 0,72 and place 0,25 while the Wates bus station has the index of node 0,64 and place 0,16.