Dresden 2006 – scientific programme
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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
AKSOE 10: Poster Session (posters are expected to be displayed the full day 8:30-18:00)
AKSOE 10.33: Poster
Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 16:00–18:00, P2
Modeling framework for railway stations in regional systems — •Dominik E. Reusser1 and Peter Loukopoulus1,2 — 1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich — 2Göteborg University, Sweden
Railway stations are an important part of a regional system and we need a better understanding of the relationship between a railway station and its surroundings. This need is potentially greater given historical trends of diminishing patronage and railway station closures. The poster presents a conceptual framework for a model which allows to assess medium and long term dynamics of railway station development together with the connected regional system. The framework includes the description of the behavior of the main actors. This allows a deeper understanding of the dynamic of railway stations, which is also vital if the trends with respect to patronage and closures are to be halted and reversed.
An existing integrated model for railway stations is enhanced to include information for decisions concerning railway development. An appropriate methodology is agent-based modeling linked to a system dynamic model comprised of a system boundary and system elements together with the relationships between system elements.
At a later stage, the presented framework will be discussed at round tables with stakeholders to select relevant agents to be included in the model; together with existing behavioral theories and expert interviews, these will be used to obtain knowledge about the perceptions, internal states and anticipated actions of agents in the railway-station-related actor network.