Citation

Srikukenthiran S, Shalaby A, Morrow E. Transp. Res. Proc. 2014; 2: 624-629.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publications)

DOI

10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.104

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Pedestrian choice between co-located stairs and escalators in Toronto transit stations was modelled using a set of standard binary and mixed-logit models, incorporating dynamic variables like crowding. While all models had good fit, the ascending direction and restricted-mobility individual choice were more readily predicted. Performance was measured predictive ability of ten-second aggregate flows after implementation in the pedestrian simulator MassMotion. The mixed-logit models performed consistently better than the standard models, with all showing good predictive ability (nearing 90%). There were also significant spreads of accuracy of up to 10% when the way the models were applied by simulation agents was varied.

Language: en

Keywords

discrete choice modelling; escalators; interchange subway stations; pedestrian simulation; stairs