中国物理B ›› 2016, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (4): 48902-048902.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/4/048902

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

Pedestrian evacuation at the subway station under fire

Xiao-Xia Yang(杨晓霞), Hai-Rong Dong(董海荣), Xiu-Ming Yao(姚秀明), Xu-Bin Sun(孙绪彬)   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;
    2 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
  • 收稿日期:2015-10-15 修回日期:2015-11-27 出版日期:2016-04-05 发布日期:2016-04-05
  • 通讯作者: Hai-Rong Dong E-mail:hrdong@bjtu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61322307 and 61233001).

Pedestrian evacuation at the subway station under fire

Xiao-Xia Yang(杨晓霞)1, Hai-Rong Dong(董海荣)1, Xiu-Ming Yao(姚秀明)2, Xu-Bin Sun(孙绪彬)2   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China;
    2 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
  • Received:2015-10-15 Revised:2015-11-27 Online:2016-04-05 Published:2016-04-05
  • Contact: Hai-Rong Dong E-mail:hrdong@bjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61322307 and 61233001).

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摘要： With the development of urban rail transit, ensuring the safe evacuation of pedestrians at subway stations has become an important issue in the case of an emergency such as a fire. This paper chooses the platform of line 4 at the Beijing Xuanwumen subway station to study the emergency evacuation process under fire. Based on the established platform, effects of the fire dynamics, different initial pedestrian densities, and positions of fire on evacuation are investigated. According to simulation results, it is found that the fire increases the air temperature and the smoke density, and decreases pedestrians' visibility and walking velocity. Also, there is a critical initial density at the platform if achieving a safe evacuation within the required 6 minutes. Furthermore, different positions of fire set in this paper have little difference on crowd evacuation if the fire is not large enough. The suggestions provided in this paper are helpful for the subway operators to prevent major casualties.

关键词: pedestrian evacuation, FDS+Evac, subway station, fire, social force model

Abstract: With the development of urban rail transit, ensuring the safe evacuation of pedestrians at subway stations has become an important issue in the case of an emergency such as a fire. This paper chooses the platform of line 4 at the Beijing Xuanwumen subway station to study the emergency evacuation process under fire. Based on the established platform, effects of the fire dynamics, different initial pedestrian densities, and positions of fire on evacuation are investigated. According to simulation results, it is found that the fire increases the air temperature and the smoke density, and decreases pedestrians' visibility and walking velocity. Also, there is a critical initial density at the platform if achieving a safe evacuation within the required 6 minutes. Furthermore, different positions of fire set in this paper have little difference on crowd evacuation if the fire is not large enough. The suggestions provided in this paper are helpful for the subway operators to prevent major casualties.

Key words: pedestrian evacuation, FDS+Evac, subway station, fire, social force model

中图分类号:  (Transportation)

  • 89.40.-a
05.65.+b (Self-organized systems) 89.75.-k (Complex systems)