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November 29th 15, 12:06 PM
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No more walking up escalators at Holborn
On Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:59:55 UTC, Recliner wrote:
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 11:54:31 +0000, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 11:23:17 on Sun, 29 Nov 2015, remarked: I really doubt the capacity arguments: it may be true that you get more people on the standing side than on the walking side as walking needs a bit more inter-person space, but on the other hand the number of people per second is greater. I wonder if they have really done any measurements? It would be trivial to measu just stand at the top of one of the escalators that has for the duration of the experiment people standing on one side and walking up the other, and count how many people step off the top on each side in a fixed period of time. A minute would be plenty long enough. Could the result vary with the demographic of the users and the time and location. Of course. I'm going to suggest that the time and location we concentrate on is "Holborn in the rush hours". Already done: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/assets/snippets/workingpaperpdf/2002-11-01GoutamDutta.pdf From page 28: Conclusion It is therefore concluded that: * Passengers will not stand on both sides of an escalator simply because they are asked to. * When passengers do stand on both sides capacity is high but this is only because the majority of passengers do not treat the left hand side as a standing side. * However, except for short periods of time, passengers will not stand on both sides unless they are persuaded (such as through an advertising campaign) to treat both sides as standing sides. * If passengers could be persuaded to treat both sides as standing sides, capacity would not be so high and, if the assumptions made are correct, it would only be advantageous for high rise double escalators and for corner A double escalators. * To impose such a selective policy would be even more difficult than persuading passengers to stand on all escalators and the benefit gained would be minimal. On all they need is a member of staff, preferably a unidexter, to ride up and down clogging the walking side. |
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