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Pedestrian route choice of vertical facilities at kuala lumpur city centre underground train station

Pedestrian route choice of vertical facilities at kuala lumpur city centre underground train station / Tee Xin Lei
Peningkatan bilangan pengguna Transit Aliran Ringan (LRT) Laluan Kelana Jaya mesti disokong dengan kemudahan pejalan kaki yang sempurna bagi memastikan pergerakan pejalan kaki berjalan lancar. Walau bagaimanapun, pilihan laluan keluar yang terhad di dalam stesen LRT bawah tanah dengan hanya melalui tangga dan eskalator menyebabkan kesesakan dan kelewatan untuk keluar dari platform terutama pada waktu puncak. Kajian ini membincangkan pilihan laluan pengguna stesen LRT bawah tanah Kuala Lumpur City Centre dengan mengunakan kaedah mengikuti pejalan kaki. Keputusan kajian menunjukkan pengguna LRT lebih cenderung menggunakan kemudahan yang dekat dengan pintu keluar keretapi yang digunakan, kecuali mereka yang keluar dari bahagian tengah keretapi cendurung memilih eskalator, hal ini menyebabkan peratusan pengunaan escalator (52.3%) lebih tinggi berbanding dengan penggunaan tangga (47.7%). Pengguna LRT berjalan lebih cepat sebanyak 31.5% semasa menghampiri laluan masuk tangga berbanding dengan eskalator. Ini kerana lebih ramai penumpang cendurung menggunakan eskalator dan kelajuan berjalan lebih rendah akibat kesesakan di depan eskalator. Oleh sebab itu, mereka mengalami masa kelewatan yang lebih tinggi sekurang-kurangnya 30.1% di laluan masuk eskalator berbanding dengan tangga. Namun, masa kelewatan yang dialami semasa berjalan atas tangga adalah lebih tinggi sekurang-kurangnya 48.8% berbanding dengan menggunakan eskalator kerana kelajuan pejalan kaki yang menggunakan eskalator dipengaruhi oleh kelajuan operasi eskalator. Kajian ini boleh membantu pengendali stesen memahami pilihan laluan pejalan kaki untuk keluar dari stesen bawah tanah dan boleh digunakan sebagai rujukan bagi mereka mereka bentuk stesen bawah tanah pada masa depan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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.
Contributor(s):
Tee Xin Lei - Author
Primary Item Type:
Final Year Project
Identifiers:
Accession Number : 875007631
Language:
English
Subject Keywords:
Light Rail Transit (LRT); facilities; pedestrian movement
First presented to the public:
6/1/2018
Original Publication Date:
8/3/2018
Previously Published By:
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Place Of Publication:
School of Civil Engineering
Citation:
Extents:
Number of Pages - 156
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Date Deposited
2018-08-06 10:15:42.85
Date Last Updated
2019-01-07 11:24:32.9118
Submitter:
Mohd Jasnizam Mohd Salleh

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