Objectives
FAIR Stations will develop an integrated solution that is a (fair) balance between the needs of passengers and other categories of customers and the constraints of infrastructure (stations) in general and vehicle access (door) system from platforms in particular.
It will investigate passenger and other customers’ flows serving the needs of the general public, and also pay special attention to the needs of persons with reduced mobility (PRMs), who usually lead to additional design requirements for accessibility to stations, platforms and trains.
Social dataset
Development of social dataset that includes passenger needs and expectations. Emphasis will be made on the various categories of PRMs, who tend to define most of the accessibility requirements.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking of state-of-the-art technology and information through identification of past research, and data related to passenger crowd flow, accessibility (for PRMs) and security risk assessment in high capacity stations.
Crowd flow analysis
Development of crowd flow analysis tool for the general population but that takes account of PRMs, baggage handling and security.
Platform Train Interface
Develop an integrated (design) solution of a complex rail station, Platform Train Interface (PTI) interface and vehicle based independent boarding system for improved crowd flow and security.
Design concepts
Evaluation of design concepts to obtain one with the highest impact based on the project’s identified Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Recommendations
Make recommendations to improve existing good practice guidelines and standards.
The Project
Budget: 1.2 MEuro (1.2 MEuro EU-funded)
Coordinator: Stam S.r.l.
Stations are not only the place where passengers board and alight the moveable railways assets, the trains, they are more and more places where other activities than only transport are offered to citizens and they now become destinations in their own right and dynamic places of commercial, retail and social activities.
With increasing demand for railway transport and for additional services – either for intermodal transport or for non-purely transport activities railway stations are becoming more and more complex. Subsequently, there are likely to be issues with congestion, guidance and security that are not experienced in more remote stations.
The FAIR Stations project aims to develop solutions for improved users flow within the station, and at the platform train interface (PTI). This will be done putting customer satisfaction, and security & safety at the centre of the station design, paying special attention to needs of PRMs.
Increased throughput rate during peak hours
Reduced number of successful threats
Reduced train dwell time
Improved accessibility to multimodal stations for all categories of citizens
Consortium
The consortium consists of 8 partners and 4 LTPs, each having specific and high value knowledge in all needed scientific and technological branches which are required to meet the objectives of the project.
To cover the project objectives, the key competences of the partners relate to door access systems, station infrastructure, human factors (behaviour and characteristics), accessibility (PRMs especially), security and safety.

Stam

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Metro de Madrid

Vienna University of Technology

SIIT

APF

ILUNION

UITP

AITEK (LTP)

ONAIR (LTP)

SWHARD (LTP)

AMSLER (LTP)
Project Advisory Board
We have engaged a Project Advisory Board to ensure FAIR Stations is aligned and up-to-date with the other related activities and projects internationally.
The members of the Board are presented in the following: