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Due to the enhancement in security and quarantine during the ongoing pandemic, passenger bottlenecks are occurring in the unit space of passenger facilities in railway station. This study analyzed the pedestrian space module and density of passenger facilities for the floating population using Iksan Railway Station based on communications network. A pedestrian module for each unit space was derived by conducting a walking pattern simulation based on peak hours during the morning on weekdays with a high floating population distribution. The passenger facilities of Iksan Railway Station are divided into pedestrian path and waiting area and consist of concourse, on-board foot-crossing between platforms, security area, ticket office, open waiting room, event space, and tourist information center. The security area, which was previously defined as a passageway, was changed into waiting space as a quarantine area during this pandemic, resulting in intensive bottlenecks in the connection space of concourse and foot-crossing between platforms. The bottleneck is caused by the difference in walking speed and waiting time due to the events of tourists according to the unit space of railway station. On the basis of the analysis results, the possibility of a design methodology for new pedestrian space module plan for the unit space of railway station was presented.