The article aims at presenting the analysis of pedestrian behavior at transport stops, with special focus on tram platforms. The most important characteristics of a platform are length and width. Determining the level of service is also applied in international context on the basis of which the area is measurable. This article aims to show these briefly, and provides a recommendation for domestic application while incorporating the most characteristic features. On the basis of the measurement and micro-simulation, recommendation can be made for the level of service. The method of improving the quality of service is shown through the enlargement of the platform’s effective area.
ABSTRACT:Pedestrian flow is much less regulated and controlled compared to vehicle traffic. Estimating flow parameters would support many safety, security or commercial applications. Current paper discusses a method that enables acquiring information on pedestrian movements without disturbing and changing their motion. Profile laser scanner and depth camera have been applied to capture the geometry of the moving people as time series. Procedures have been developed to derive complex flow parameters, such as count, volume, walking direction and velocity from laser scanned point clouds. Since no images are captured from the faces of pedestrians, no privacy issues raised. The paper includes accuracy analysis of the estimated parameters based on video footage as reference. Due to the dense point clouds, detailed geometry analysis has been conducted to obtain the height and shoulder width of pedestrians and to detect whether luggage has been carried or not. The derived parameters support safety (e.g. detecting critical pedestrian density in mass events), security (e.g. detecting prohibited baggage in endangered areas) and commercial applications (e.g. counting pedestrians at all entrances/exits of a shopping mall).
Asphalt industry finds itself battling ongoing economic difficulties and an urge to achieve a more sustainable development and growth. it means constant searching is needed for alternative materials and possibilities to use recycled and processed waste materials in asphalt mixes as long as an expected level of performance and durability is provided. Aluminium dross is a recyclable by-product of the casting process of melted aluminium. in this study an attempt was made to reveal the potentials of using aluminium dross as filler for asphalt wearing course mixes. During the research, filler fractions (d<0.063 mm) were prepared by milling and microstructural tests were conducted both on the alternative and control filler for a better understanding of the materials and their composition. the effect of replacing limestone filler with aluminium dross filler on the performance of asphalt mixes was analysed by performance-based and performance related asphalt mechanical tests according to common standards. in the paper, the properties of fillers and various mechanical test results are presented and by interpreting the tests and results final conclusions are presented regarding the use of aluminium dross as filler in asphalt mixes. keywords: asphalt, aluminium dross, filler, rheology, stiffness kulcsszavak: aszfalt, alumínium salak, töltőanyag, reológia, merevség member of the member of the Hungarian scientific Association for transport bella UDvarDi, bSc Graduated in 2017 as material engineer, Bsc. currently working on her msc diploma work.
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