Mathias, Kabtamu (Mr.)Kaleab, Tesfaye2019-06-012023-11-042019-06-012023-11-042018-01http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/18376Station is a basic production unit of railway transportation, integrating technical equipment relating to transportation. For the last couple of years investigations have been conducted in Ethiopia in railway site selection. One of that is the Addis Ababa light railway, where two alternative rights of way are seen. That is north- south corridor and East –west corridor of Addis Ababa which is about 34km. An important subject in the planning of a new railway line is the design of the railway stations since they affect the capacity, flexibility and the safety of the rail transport system. The main objective of paper is to investigate how stations can be designed to align with the proposed high speed railway concepts on the line of the light railway based the topography, demography, climatic and economic conditions of the country. The focus in the report is to adapt parameters of station design and investigate how they are affected by the high speed railway concepts. This paper consists of a literature study similar to the subject. The knowledge gained is then used to suggest possible station platforms, station safety. Some aspects of station design that are investigated in the literature study are platforms, platform safety issues, necessary dimensions of platforms and stations. It is concluded that the spacing of station and dimension of station (base width and length, plate form of station) is optimized in consideration of satisfying all passengers and the optimization analysis is need in estimation of cost of station. Therefore, sizing station is critical and designers should err on the side of safety when determining the size of the station.en-USLight Rail WayStation DesignPlatformSafetyThesis