3 research outputs found
Passenger Flows in Underground Railway Stations and Platforms, MTI Report 12-43
Urban rail systems are designed to carry large volumes of people into and out of major activity centers. As a result, the stations at these major activity centers are often crowded with boarding and alighting passengers, resulting in passenger inconvenience, delays, and at times danger. This study examines the planning and analysis of station passenger queuing and flows to offer rail transit station designers and transit system operators guidance on how to best accommodate and manage their rail passengers. The objectives of the study are to: 1) Understand the particular infrastructural, operational, behavioral, and spatial factors that affect and may constrain passenger queuing and flows in different types of rail transit stations; 2) Identify, compare, and evaluate practices for efficient, expedient, and safe passenger flows in different types of station environments and during typical (rush hour) and atypical (evacuations, station maintenance/ refurbishment) situations; and 3) Compile short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations for optimizing passenger flows in different station environments
Energy management in smart spaces through the OPlatform
Energy management, and in particular its optimization, is one of the hot trends in the current days, both at the enterprise level (optimization of whole corporate/government buildings) and single-citizens' homes. The current trend is to provide knowledge about the micro(scopic) energy consumption. In our work we developed a platform, named OPlatform, for smart environments able to micro-account energy consumption of devices, at the level of each single power line, which allows at the same time the actuation of devices, thus being also an energy-aware domotic solution. After presenting the system architecture, consisting of a distributed system based on several OMeters (specifically designed hardware devices) and an OBox (an embedded PC hosting the software system), we present a preliminary case study, in which the OPlatform has been adopted in a small office, in order to highlight the concrete possible savings