Experiments of Egress Behavior When Subway Car stops on track

초록

Passengers should be jump down from the cabin of subway car to ground level, when fire occurred. In this research conducting from 2008 to 2011, the time to jump down were measured and the egress phenomena were observed by the differences of age and gender in order to get data for the analysis of train egress. In the result of the experimental study to measure the movement time by single person, the youth jumped down very fast, but it was very difficult for a female participant to jump down. The elderly landed slowly and demanded help from the others. The experimental study by group was conducted. In the case of the corridor formed by walls and test facility, the slowest time for landing of the group A was 97.21 seconds and the group B was 138.84 seconds. The result reflected real world situation was the experimental study by group. It measured that the data for the outflow rate of the case of door open toward open space or wall in tunnel. In the future, egress analysis for subway car stopped in tunnel will be conducted using the data from the experimental studies.