Modeling and safety strategy of passenger evacuation in a metro station in China

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1319-1332

  Shi, Congling ^a   Zhong, Maohua ^a   Nong, Xingzhong ^b   He, Li ^a   Shi, Jiehong ^a   Feng, Guoguan ^c  

^a State Administration of Work Safety   (China)

^b Guangzhou Metro Design and Research Institute   (China)

^c Guangzhou Metro Corporation   (China)

Author keywords

Behavioral feature; Evacuation; Metro; Modeling

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; BEHAVIORAL FEATURES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; EFFECTIVE MEASURES; ENGINEERING CALCULATION; EVACUATION; EVACUATION PROCESS; EVACUATION ROUTES; EVACUATION TIME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH DENSITY; METRO; METRO STATIONS; OCCUPANT SAFETY; OPERATION TIME; SAFE EVACUATION; SAFETY STRATEGY; SAFETY ZONE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MODELS; SUBWAY STATIONS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHINA; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; ESCALATOR; EVACUATION; HUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TIME; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84857236477     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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