Safety Evacuation at Metro Transit Station in Shenyang under Fire

Abstract:

It's necessary to pay much attention to the public safety issues of subway because of the rapid development of urban subway. Safety evacuation under different fire scenarios were simulated by using SIMULEX 2.0 at Metro transit station (Youth Street station) in Shenyang combined the actual structural characteristic. The results show that the evacuation capacity of Metro Line 1 is smaller than Metro Line 2; the staircase to the station hall of Metro Line 1 would be the bottleneck of the entire evacuation process; different paths have a great influence on the evacuation time; the staircase width from the platform to the station hall is the bottleneck in the evacuation procedure.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 864-867)
• Pages: 849-852
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.864-867.849
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Yan Ying Xu, Wan Wan Duan, Lu Chao Li
• Keywords: Metro Transit Station, Numerical Simulation, Safe Evacuation, Staircase Width

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