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@INPROCEEDINGS{Braun:864746,
author = {Braun, Anna and Chraibi, Mohcine and Arnold, Lukas},
title = {{I}nvestigation of the capacity of train stations in case
of a large-scale emergency evacuation},
volume = {62},
publisher = {EasyChair},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-04417},
series = {EPiC Series in Computing},
pages = {68-77},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Nature and human-made hazards, like hurricanes,
inundations, terroristic attacks or in- cidents in nuclear
power plants, make it necessary to evacuate large urban
areas in a short time. So far, the consideration of railway
transportation is rarely part of the evacuation strategies.
One of the reasons is the unknown capacity of this
infrastructure.In the case of hurricanes Katrina and Rita
(USA) the evacuation was accomplished with pri- vate
vehicles and buses. In Germany, especially in the
conurbation of Nordrhein-Westfalen, where many roads are
overloaded during the daily rush hours, it will not be
possible to use only road dependent vehicles like private
cars or busses to evacuate a large number of people into
save areas.After the nuclear power plant disaster of
Fukushima, the working group ‘AG Fukushima’ was founded,
which recommends the use of trains for large-scale emergency
evacuations. However, it is not clear if the capacity of
train stations is enough to handle these large evacuations
in time. Hence, this work deals with the question of how the
capacity of train stations can be quantified and optimised
for this application. In order to estimate the capacity of
train stations we use and further develop the Ju ̈lich
Pedestrian Simula- tor (JuPedSim), a software for pedestrian
dynamics simulations. Therefore, a model of a train station
is built in JuPedSim and several parameters like the inflow
and outflow of the pedestrians are examined, to find the
best routing strategy and organisational ac- tions inside
the station. The focus of this contribution lies in the
identification of critical bottlenecks. An estimation of
which parameters are influencing congestion at these bottle-
necks is presented. Additionally, organisational strategies
are outlined, which can prevent congestion and increase the
capacity of a train station.},
month = {May},
date = {2019-05-13},
organization = {SUMO User Conference 2019, Berlin
(Germany), 13 May 2019 - 15 May 2019},
cin = {IAS-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-7-20180321},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8 / PUB:(DE-HGF)7},
doi = {10.29007/j32s},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/864746},
}