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The exchanges between the platform and the trains structure the punctuality of those. Indeed, the positioning of the travelers who expect the train on the platform, their choice of car in the train according to the exit door in their station of arrival, are inter alia elements which condition the dwelling times of trains. In mass transit railway or commuter rail systems, dwelling times are usually long and chaotic, which can lead to tardy trains and a decrease in the system efficiency, especially during peak hours. For more efficient and robust schedules, for an improvement of passengers’ comfort, a train operator must take care of the passenger movements in the train and on the platform in order to improve the design of both trains and platform to optimize pedestrian flows.
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We would like to thanks our colleagues at SNCF Rolling Stock Engineering Centre for the help they gave us to do this work.
Guillaume Craveur also would like to thank Prof Ed Galea and senior research fellow Lazaros Filippidis from the Fire Safety Engineering Group of the University of Greenwich who taught me the human behavior and the practical use of buildingEXODUS for movement and evacuation. Finally Guillaume would like to thank Prof Jean-Charles Craveur from ISMANS Engineering School for his lectures and the Mastère Spécialisé in Fire Safety Engineering he developed at ISMANS.
Olivier Anselmi would like to take this opportunity to thank Sandra Cornille who have contributed in some way to this article and especially for the given translation work.
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Craveur, G., Anselmi, O. (2017). The Use of Modelling Tool in Order to Evaluate the Dwelling Times for Trains. In: Stanton, N., Landry, S., Di Bucchianico, G., Vallicelli, A. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_5
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