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Because of their familiarity with various sites and members, elderly people behave differently in the dining hall, including when they choose their seats. More than half elderly tend to choose the same seats, and prefer to use personal items to occupy the seats. They also move the chairs or even communicate with others to make sure the people they know sit beside them. However, for some elderly people,...
When traffic officers establish a checkpoint on the roads of Taipei City, they need to rearrange the signs and materials alerting the drivers again according to real-time situations even though the materials were conveniently located to begin with. Traffic officers have to frequently walk back and forth between the materials and vehicles while setting up and packing away the checkpoint. Traffic officers...
This study was found 98% of people faces the door when entering, while 2% enters facing away from the door, including people with luggage or children, and wheelchair or electric wheelchair users. In the elevator queue, only 4% follow the floor guides and line up on both sides, while 72% waits in front of the door. Up to 72% of people loiters on the guide bricks. When entering the elevator, 16% of...
Participants sometimes cross an intersection when the red light shows but 75.5% deem this behavior incorrect. To reach the MRT station faster, pedestrians at Intersection D of Heping E. Rd. traffic circle often stepped onto the road away from pedestrian crossings, where the distance and crossing time were relatively long and the number of people crossing together was relatively large, a higher percentage...
There were more than 10 million tourists visiting Taiwan in 2016. 46% of tourists would like to experience Taiwanese temple culture. This study found: 1. Foreign tourists have doubt for wayfinding behaviors around lighting change areas and turning points. 2. 78% of tourists experienced the worship culture without correct worship instructions. 3. Merely 20% of foreign tourists using temple's wayfinding...
A well-organized meeting point should enhance the efficiency between travelers and people who are there to meet them. When picking up or seeing off passengers at an airport, the driver usually selects a meeting place according to the locations of airport entrances and exits, and mode of transportation. Whether the signs can be recognized easily, the colors of the signs, and how quickly they can get...
When observing the bus-waiting behavior of passengers, 49% of them use smart phones. Queue routes are usually in a straight line when there is no other obstructions. It is observed that 49% of people stand, while 4% of people lean on rails and 2% sit on stairs. As the waiting time is long, tired passengers are prone to lean on supporting objects. The average distance between each each passenger is...
Affected by distance, interference, and passenger flow, escalators or staircases that are closer to the transfer station are being selected by more and more people, resulting in an unbalanced distribution of passenger flow and congestion. During rush hour, if passengers who use an escalator stand on only one side of the escalator, then passengers for different trains are prone to huddle together....
For schools, parks, and recreational areas, the maintenance of green areas is important, but it places a heavy burden on both manpower and budget. In this paper, we proposed a model to search for the minimum gardener manpower requirements and a near-optimal maintenance schedule for the green areas. Unlike other applications of ant colony optimization, we grouped the ants into teams to represent gardeners...
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