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Post by Chris W on Mar 21, 2007 14:36:45 GMT
Yesterday whilst alighting/embarking at Bond Street I noticed people in fluorescent jackets with hand-held digital counters - I assume that they were analysing routes/walkways throughout the station & rates of use/traffic. I would guess that this info is used to analyse traffic levels for health & safety or to ascertain the busiest stations on the network - some questions: - Would TfL be the body who has sanctioned this study?
- How would the data be used/for what purpose?
- As this is the first time I have seen such a study, are only the busier/inner London stations analysed, or would this work be undertaken at all LU station?
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Post by Tubeboy on Mar 21, 2007 16:27:59 GMT
I dont know if it is related, but there was an item on the news last night showing people with gadgets [cant remember the station] with the intention of measuring how fast gases travel on the tube. They are collecting data, to determine how fast a gas attack on the tube would develop.
They are releasing harmless gas. Let us hope the tests will be a success.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 17:53:44 GMT
I best not break wind in the vicinity then...
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Post by Chris W on Mar 21, 2007 18:23:14 GMT
It was definitely traffic monitoring as there were people in these fluorescent jackets at every entrance/exit/escalator etc etc clicking every time anyone went past. Anyone seen anything similar today or in the past week or so  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 18:48:47 GMT
Surely this data is easier collected via the gateline?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 18:58:39 GMT
people might just use the station to Interchange between lines, which is probably the reason for the manned passageways...
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Post by Colin on Mar 21, 2007 20:54:38 GMT
Indeed it would be monitoring numbers of people passing through. Whilst using the gateline is one method of gaining information, this method can provide information not provided by the gateline such as (as has been suggested) information on numbers interchanging or which carriages most people get off/on of. Whilst the latter my be irrelevant at the likes of Bond Street, it may prove useful elsewhere when deciding whether to re-position an exit or passage way. There is always a purpose to such monitoring, but it's not always immediately apparent as to what that may be. I dont know if it is related, but there was an item on the news last night showing people with gadgets [cant remember the station] with the intention of measuring how fast gases travel on the tube. They are collecting data, to determine how fast a gas attack on the tube would develop. They are releasing harmless gas. Let us hope the tests will be a success. I believe this is St Johns Wood a little later in the year - and the station will remain open to customers......so it should certainly give a realistic result. |
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Post by suncloud on Mar 21, 2007 20:57:41 GMT
And the gateline wouldn't give a figure of how many people are getting on/off a particular line...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 20:59:51 GMT
Unless the info loaded onto Oyster cards or deduced from encoding on tickets can be stored in the gates themselves.
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