STAM is a multidisciplinary engineering company based in Italy that provides high-tech custom solutions to meet its client’s business challenges. Its engineers created a simulation model of metro station crowd behavior for the purpose of analyzing different attack scenarios.
As the operating company of several major international airports, Fraport AG is one of the main “Global Players” in the airport industry. With more than 140,000 passengers per day and over 80 aircraft movements per hour, Frankfurt airport – an aviation hub of worldwide significance – is Fraport AG's busiest airport and its home base.
Fair Dynamics, a Milan based consulting company with a distinct aspect towards simulation modeling, was engaged in developing The Ametria project, a contemporary art exhibition held in the Athens’ Benaki Museum. AnyLogic simulation modeling let engineers see where the artworks could be placed, as well as show how people could move inside the gallery.
TranSystems is an architect and engineering company with over 25 years of modeling experience in the transportation industry. The company works on projects related to railroads, airports, seaports, roadways, transit supply chains, industrial facilities automation, and even quick-service type operations in restaurants and hospital facilities.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is in Russia, and in preparation for the event, the extensive rail network of the enormous country had to prepare for increased traffic. RZD, the largest rail network operator in Russia, conducted an event preparedness assessment involving 31 railway stations across the eleven host cities of: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Saransk, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, and Yekaterinburg. The project was contracted out to IRTS, a company specializing in the development of transport systems.
Sheremetyevo is Russia’s largest airport, with an annual passenger throughput of 40 million people. The airport infrastructure is constantly expanding. Passenger Terminal B is to be commissioned in 2018, and in 2020 and 2023 it will be integrated with Terminals C1 and C2 which are under construction. Additionally, a plan is underway to expand the car parking area at the station square. These changes are expected to help increase the airport capacity and reach an annual throughput of 52 million passengers by 2024.
When planning the subway renovations, the engineers wanted to be sure that the design solutions they chose would comply with current safety regulations and ridership. For instance, at Kiyevskaya station, one of the Moscow’s largest metro hubs, with ridership of 30,000 passengers an hour, the engineers decided to enlarge the existing antechamber to increase the passenger flow, replace the escalator belts, and add an extra escalator in the rundown corridor to the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line. To evaluate the project design, they contracted the specialists of the Institute for Development of Transportation Systems (IDTS).
GSS Inc. is a Canadian engineering company that provides strategic and technical consulting services with a strong focus on simulation and optimization in the context of major infrastructure and transformation projects. GSS helps clients in different industries including healthcare, airports, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. Their list of customers worldwide includes Johnson & Johnson, Bombardier, ABB, and Nikon, as well as Canadian government agencies.
The launch of passenger trains on Moscow Ring Railway is expected to improve the road traffic situation and congestion on public transportation of the city. Many of the newly built stations will be connected to subway and commuter rails by huge transfer hubs. Passenger flows, at one of the future hubs, were simulated using AnyLogic software by the ITS Consulting Company for JSC Moscow Ring Railway.
The largest CIS rail car building facility, Tver Carriage Works, needed to choose the best passenger rail car concept for a city train. The plant needed to compare passenger entrance/exit times during peak loads for concepts that had different door amounts and widths, and then choose the best variant. They contracted ITS Consulting to perform this task. The consultants found pedestrian simulation modeling to be the best possible instrument to provide a solution.