Shaping the train and Underground experience of the future

As Mark lives and works in the capital, he has a personal interest in seeing the Underground working as efficiently as possible; a factor that helped him through the contract negotiations with Transport for London (TfL).

Small differences can deliver big improvements

By studying and analysing the effect of factors such as door widths and layout on passenger boarding and alighting times, system performance could be improved.

Nick's work covers investigation of the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments and utilises the Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory (PAMELA) for the assessment of pedestrian movement. In particular, he looks at:

• environments under well-controlled laboratory conditions
• pedestrian infrastructure.

Minding the gap between people and performance

Via UCL Consultants, TfL engaged with Nick's team at UCL to utilise PAMELA to inform decisions to improve capacity and reliability across the Underground network. This has got to be great news for all of the capital's many residents, commuters and visitors who travel on the world famous Tube every day.

Mark Sedgwick concludes: "Although I had to negotiate a set of mutually agreeable commercial terms within aggressive timelines, as a Londoner I had a particular interest in the potential impact of this project on my own life, and the lives of my fellow commuters."

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