Research Article
Exploring the Effect of Boarding and Alighting Ratio on Passengers’ Behaviour at Metro Stations by Laboratory Experiments
Table 1
Load condition descriptions at PAMELA.
| | Load Condition code | Boarding per door | Alighting per door | On-board | R = Boarding/Alighting Ratio | Number of runs per scenario |
| | LC 0 | 55 | 0 | 0 | - | 2 |
| | LC 1 | 0 | 55 | 0 | - | 2 |
| | LC 2 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 20 |
| | LC 3 | 10 | 40 | 10 | 0.25 | 20 |
| | LC 4 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 1 | 20 |
| | LC 5 | 20 | 5 | 60 | 4 | 20 |
| | LC 6 | 5 | 20 | 60 | 0.25 | 20 |
| | LC 7 | 10 | 10 | 70 | 1 | 20 |
| | LC 8 | 55 +crush | 0 | 0 | - | 10 |
| | Note: All passengers on-board remain inside the train in each run. |
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