Evacuation trials from a double-deck electric train unit: Experimental data and sensitivity analysis

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21720%2F22%3A00352774" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21720/22:00352774 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21110/22:00352774 RIV/68407700:21240/22:00352774 RIV/68407700:21340/22:00352774

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105523" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105523</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105523" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105523</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evacuation trials from a double-deck electric train unit: Experimental data and sensitivity analysis

Original language description

Passenger trains represent a challenging environment in emergencies, with specific evacuation conditions resulting from the typical layout and interior design inherent to public transportation vehicles. This paper describes a dataset obtained in a full-scale controlled experiment emulating the emergency evacuation of a double-deck electric unit railcar carried out in Prague in 2018. 15 evacuation trials involving 91 participants were conducted under various evacuation scenarios considering different compositions of passenger crowd, exit widths, and exit types (egress to a high platform, to an open rail line using stairs, and a 750 mm jump without any supporting equipment). The study’s main goals were to collect experimental data on the movement conditions in the railcar and to study the impact of various boundary conditions on evacuation process and total evacuation time. Movement characteristics (exit flows, speeds) and human behaviour (pre-movement activities, exiting behaviours) were also analysed. The data obtained was used to validate and adjust a Pathfinder model to capture important aspects of evacuation from the railcar. Furthermore, a series of simulations using this model was performed to provide sensitivity analysis of the influence of crowd composition, exit width, and exit type on total evacuation time. As a key finding, we can conclude that for the case of a standard exit path (platform or stairs) the width of the main exit had the greatest impact on total evacuation time, however, crowd composition played the prevailing role in evacuation scenarios involving a jump.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20104 - Transport engineering

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

C - Předmět řešení projektu podléhá obchodnímu tajemství (§ 504 Občanského zákoníku), ale název projektu, cíle projektu a u ukončeného nebo zastaveného projektu zhodnocení výsledku řešení projektu (údaje P03, P04, P15, P19, P29, PN8) dodané do CEP, jsou upraveny tak, aby byly zveřejnitelné.

Name of the periodical

Safety Science

ISSN

0925-7535

e-ISSN

1879-1042

Volume of the periodical

146

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000712042000003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85117819230