JOSÉ MANUEL PASTOR

Abstract: A real application of simulation in the design of public transportation facilities is presented. The flow of passengers is modelled using discrete-event simulation, which facilitates the abstraction of the emptying and filling of the passengers into the buses, rather than the more usual continuous simulation for crowd movement. The decision variables include not only the physical layout of the queues but also some tactical variables that will help in future negotiations with labour unions and owners of the lines. A regression analysis has been performed using the simulation results to study the relationship between the maximum queue length and the input/output ratio in the gates