Our problem is that trains are late often. This is because a lot of people have to go through the same small door at the same time. This causes trains to be later at the next station and because of this a lot of people are late on their job or their appointment. Why don’t they just make the doors bigger, you might think. Well this is for the reason that they want to keep the train heated inside, and the heat would escape if the doors where bigger.So we tried to solve the problem of slow trains.
Locatie
Plaats
Helmond
School
Jan van Brabant College
Deelnemers
Klas
Vt2A
Groepsnaam
TF group
Groepsleden
Jasper Dooms, Mayke Heymans, Marieke van Acht, Jorik Venema, Jula Stommels
Naam docent
Hans Vasse
Project
Thema
Mobiliteit
Probleemstelling
Our problem is that trains are late often. This is because a lot of people have to go through the same small door at the same time. This causes trains to be later at the next station and because of this a lot of people are late on their job or their appointment. Why don’t they just make the doors bigger, you might think. Well this is for the reason that they want to keep the train heated inside, and the heat would escape if the doors where bigger.So we tried to solve the problem of slow trains.
Oplossing
Our solution is that at half of all train carriages would get sides that open up totally. This creates more room for people to get in and out of the train, so this can go a lot faster. It might even cause trains to be earlier than scheduled! But with our solution we also saw a few problems, such as that when the doors open and people have to go in and out, it’s not very handy if there are people sitting in that carriage already, and that it might be unclear where and if there is still space left in the train. For all of these problems we thought of a solution. On the first problem (of the people sitting on the place where you should go in and out) we said that we would just take out all the chairs in this cart and replace them by poles, so people can stand when the rest of the train is full. For the second problem (the unclearness of If there is still space left) we thought we would place LED-strips on the side of each sitting carriage (so the ones that don’t open up on the side) that glow green if there is space left, and red when the carriage is full. With all of these solutions together we started to make sketches and eventually a scale model of how it would look, which you can see this on the pictures. All together we think we made a good solution so that trains will never be late again!