Abstract: Abstract Large scale renovation of rail stations to cater for growing passenger demand has been taking place in various sites in Japan. These projects pose a challenge to researchers to identify suitable technical methods to develop infrastructure layouts that efficiently cater for movement of walking passengers. This paper presents an application in relation to the JR Takatsuki station where there was a narrow island platform catering for large volume of boarding, alighting and transferring passengers. In 2015, the operator has begun expanding...
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Transport engineering
Operations research