Pedestrian route choice of vertical facilities at kuala lumpur city centre underground train station
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Date
2018-06
Authors
Tee, Xin Lei
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The increasing of ridership of Light Rail Transit (LRT) Kelana Jaya Line must
be supported by efficient egress facilities in train station to optimise the pedestrian
movement. However, limited route choices to egress platform level via stairways and
escalators especially in underground train station are suspected to cause congestion and
delay to egress the platform especially during the peak hours. In this dissertation,
pedestrian route choice at Kuala Lumpur City Centre underground train station was
studied by using Pedestrian Following Survey. The results showed that LRT users at the
underground train station preferred to use the vertical facility that is nearer to their
respective train doors due to the shortest path, except the passengers that alighted from
the middle section of train and tended to egress with escalators over stairways, resulting
in the percentage usage of escalators (52.3%) was higher than stairways (47.7%). LRT
users at the underground platform walked faster towards stairways by at most 31.5%
compared to the escalators. This is because pedestrians tended to use escalators thus
reduced speed that caused by the overcrowded at the entrance of escalators. Hence,
escalator users experienced higher delay in time by at least 30.1% compared to the
stairway users. However, after the users boarded the vertical facilities, those who used
stairways experienced higher delay time by at least 48.8% compared to those who used
escalators that has uniform escalator operating speed. This dissertation can help the train
station operators to have better understanding on pedestrian route choice to egress the
underground train station and can be used as a reference for future facility design of
underground train station.