Exploiting the full potential of pedestrian infrastructure is becoming critical in many environments which cannot be easily expanded to cope with the increasing pedestrian demand. This is particularly true for train stations as in many dense cities space is limited and expansion is difficult and very costly. In this paper, we investigate how to improve the level-of-service experienced by pedestrians by regulating and controlling their movements with a dynamic traffic management system. Although dynamic traffic management systems have been widely investigated in the last two decades to mitigate vehicular traffic congestion, little attention has been given in the literature to dynamic traffic management systems for pedestrian flows. The objective of this paper is to develop the concept of a dynamic traffic management system for pedestrian flows by building on the experience acquired from vehicular traffic management systems. We first propose a general framework for dynamic traffic management systems which takes into account the specificities of pedestrian traffic. The specificities of pedestrian traffic are discussed and emphasized. Then we illustrate the framework by using a control strategy designed for pedestrian flows that mitigates the issues induced by bidirectional flows. We show the effectiveness of this strategy by simulating a subpart of the train station in Lausanne (Switzerland). The results show a substantial improvement despite the relative simplicity of the method. These results emphasize the under-explored potential of pedestrian control and guidance when integrated into a dynamic pedestrian management system.

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人流控制策略设计与分析

在许多无法轻松扩展以应对日益增长的行人需求的环境中，充分利用行人基础设施的潜力变得至关重要。对于火车站来说尤其如此，因为在许多人口稠密的城市中，空间有限且扩建困难且成本高昂。在本文中，我们研究了如何通过动态交通管理系统调节和控制行人的运动来提高行人的服务水平。尽管动态交通管理系统在过去的二十年中被广泛研究以缓解车辆交通拥堵，但文献中很少关注行人流的动态交通管理系统。本文的目的是基于从车辆交通管理系统中获得的经验，开发行人流动态交通管理系统的概念。我们首先提出了一个动态交通管理系统的通用框架，该框架考虑了行人交通的特殊性。讨论并强调了行人交通的特殊性。然后我们通过使用为行人流设计的控制策略来说明该框架，该策略减轻了由双向流引起的问题。我们通过模拟洛桑（瑞士）火车站的一个子部分来展示该策略的有效性。尽管该方法相对简单，但结果显示了显着的改进。