A discrete Model of TransMilenio Station Occupation: Representation and algorithms

"Thecurrent demand of Bogota’s BRT system (TransMi-lenio) is causing critical overcrowding throughout thesystem, particularly in bus stations. The behaviour of in-dividual passengers in such stations is simplistic, yet theresulting crowd dynamics are comple[, as the majority ofregular users of the system may attest. Discrete modelssuch as cellular automata have proved helpful in simulatingsimplistic-local vs. comple[-global behaviour in similarconte[ts. Thus, the aim of this study is to characterise acellular automata model of a TransMilenio station thatmay serve as a tool to help us better understanding thesedynamics, and also as a test-bed for the proposal of miti-gation strategies. The paper describes representations andalgorithmic aspects of the model and presents preliminarysimulations that demonstrate the feasibility of the dis-cussed considerations."