Station Renens M1

Project details

Duration

02.2017-03.2017

Sponsor

NA

Partner

tl Lausanne

Staff

U. Weidmann, E. Bosina and M. Meeder

Summary

In the next five to ten years, the Renens railway station will be redesigned. The dynamic growth of its surroundings, combined with the planned increase in train capacity in the region will make Renens the third largest railway station in the Romandy by 2020. After the redesign, the SBB platform next to the M1 tracks will be adapted and therefore not be useable for M1 passengers any more. There will also be a new pedestrian overpass spanning across the railway station which will have stairs and an escalator leading to the M1 platform. These changes in addition to the expected demand will make it necessary to widen the platform.

The situation of the passenger flows on the m1 platform was already analysed previously at IVT using a pedestrian microsimulation. During the further planning phases, the geometry of the staircase and the columns needed for the support of the planned building above the M1 platform was changed. These changes affect a bottleneck on the platform and therefore potentially influence the quality and capacity of the pedestrian flow in this area.

In this study, a microsimulation of the pedestrian flow on the platform was conducted to study the effects of the planned layout changes. Different layouts were simulated to calculate the expected Level of Service. In addition, a qualitative assessment of the staircase area was provided to the customer. This study allowed to give recommendations on the layout choice from the perspective of optimal pedestrian flow.

Publications

NA