Abstract Manager

Railway stations play an important role in the planning and implementation of sustainability strategies for cities, by structuring the territories they occupy. To be efficient, rail transit networks and stations must offer a high level of safety, reliability and availability, be pleasant for users, be profitable, and generate prosperity for the communities they serve.

In anticipation of the construction of a new transport system, it is important to ensure that mobility and urban development objectives are also placed at the center of the integration of the project, to maximize the potential for sustainability of the communities and the land.

This session will address the different functions of a railway station, from the angles of mobility, comfort, quality of service, passenger exchanges, maintainability and emergency scenarios.

The session will identify, through the systems engineering approach, what key elements need to be taken into account in the design of a railway station, in order to maximize its efficiency and benefits. The session will overview the different stakeholders involved in a railway station as a system, their responsibilities and their needs, and will analyze the requirements that arise from their integration into the project.

Case studies will be presented in connection with the REM project, to show how a holistic design approach allowed design teams to address the complexity of the functional and geometric integration of railway stations. The session will finally illustrate how this approach can be extended to other rail station systems (metro, high frequency, high speed, underground/above ground, etc.).

Keywords: Sustainability, rail transit, metro, station, integration, systems engineering