Walking Time Modeling on Transfer Pedestrians in Subway Passages

Survey and determination of the passengers' walking time in subway passages is the basic work to realize train coordination between lines and to reduce the passengers' waiting time in transferring. The paper focuses on the passengers' walking time on transfer pedestrians from the statistical point of view. First, sampling method is designed based on the analysis of factors affecting walking time and five transfer stations along Line No. 5 of Beijing subway is selected to conduct the sampling survey following the method. Then, it is shown by analyzing the data collected in the transfer passage from Line No. 5 to Line No. 1 at Dongdan station, that the probabilities of walking time of passengers follow Log-normal distribution and its expected value and standard deviation are affected remarkably by crowding. Next, equivalent distance of transferring is conceived considering the real distance of passage and different affections of facilities equipped along. Finally, regression analysis of data from 10 transferring passages shows that the expected value of passenger walking time is quadric to the equivalent distance of passage.