Research on passenger capacity of escalator in the hub

Transportation hub is the highly crowd gathering place, and escalator with the hub as the main carrier of passengers' transferring, pitting and other activities, it can ensure efficient flow of pedestrians. In recent years, the utilization of escalators in the building and medium-sized transport hub improved significantly. Its passenger capacity will directly affect the evacuation of pedestrian flow, and it is an important factor in the escalator. Based on the escalator passenger capacity study of the Hohhot Railway station, by analyzing the relationships among speed,density and flow of the pedestrian who are carried by escalator within the hub in the peak travel period, we calculate with the actual carrying capacity of the escalator to arrive at an escalator utilization within the hub. And according to the level of utilization we submit reasonable proposals to achieve the purpose of improving the hub.