Remus – Andrei DOBRINOIU1, Augustin SEMENESCU2, Ionuț – Cosmin CHIVA3, Florin Valentin RUSCĂ4
Abstract. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of pedestrian traffic between the Regie Campus and Politehnica Bucharest campus, aiming to create a moving walkway transfer system. The research use queuing theory to predict pedestrian arrivals and validates the data against theoretical distributions, revealing that pedestrian movement across different time intervals closely adheres to a Poisson distribution. Comprehensive field data gathered over several weeks was divided and examined at minute-level intervals to get precise empirical arrival frequencies. The comparison of empirical and theoretical models via χ² tests established the concordance, thereby justifying the application of a Poisson model for pedestrian arrival patterns. These findings establish the basis for enhancing service velocities and infrastructure capacity for a moving walkway system, providing a scalable method for advancing urban campus mobility.
Keywords: pedestrian flow, Poisson distribution, queuing theory, empirical modelling
DOI 10.56082/annalsarscieng.2025.1.61
1 Ph.D. Student, Eng., National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (e-mail: remus.dobrinoiu@upb.ro)
2 Prof., Ph.D., National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, Member of Academy of Romanian Scientists (augustin.semenescu@upb.ro)
3 Ph.D., National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (ionut_cosmin.chiva@upb.ro)
4 Prof., Ph.D., National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (florin.rusca@upb.ro)
PUBLISHED in Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Engineering, Volume 17, No1