PO ENV 9: XXIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
Madrid, July 17-22, 1994
HOMMA, Michiko; Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.
One of the urban environmental problem is various phenomena occured (or caused) by crowded congestion. In Tokyo, the problem is particularly serious in many aspects. Crowds on commuting trains in the morning and evening rush hours shows this phenomenon.
Recently, the new model train for commuters have been developed seats were fold up in the carriages to provide more room for the commuters during the rush hours to relieve the congestion and to carry as many passengers as possible. However, we suspected whether such a train is effective or not. Because some researchers indicated that the social structure in order mediate feel crowding. Then,it's physical structure is hinder to construct the ordering arrangement of person.
Therefore,on a hypothesis that this new system doesn't seem to help to increase physical density and rather increase the passengers stress and crowding, we conducted quasi-experiment on manipulating 2 independent variables on differences of density and the differences of type the train. Subjects for this study were commuting trains running Yamanote-Line and their perceived density,perceived crowding and heart rate were measured.
As the result, the hypothesis was substantiated. This experiment has proved that this new model carriages for passengers could be obstacle to its proceedings of social structure.
Madrid, July 17-22, 1994
HOMMA, Michiko; Japan Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.
One of the urban environmental problem is various phenomena occured (or caused) by crowded congestion. In Tokyo, the problem is particularly serious in many aspects. Crowds on commuting trains in the morning and evening rush hours shows this phenomenon.
Recently, the new model train for commuters have been developed seats were fold up in the carriages to provide more room for the commuters during the rush hours to relieve the congestion and to carry as many passengers as possible. However, we suspected whether such a train is effective or not. Because some researchers indicated that the social structure in order mediate feel crowding. Then,it's physical structure is hinder to construct the ordering arrangement of person.
Therefore,on a hypothesis that this new system doesn't seem to help to increase physical density and rather increase the passengers stress and crowding, we conducted quasi-experiment on manipulating 2 independent variables on differences of density and the differences of type the train. Subjects for this study were commuting trains running Yamanote-Line and their perceived density,perceived crowding and heart rate were measured.
As the result, the hypothesis was substantiated. This experiment has proved that this new model carriages for passengers could be obstacle to its proceedings of social structure.
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