Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

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Subway Station's Seating Capacity of Temporary Evacuees from Disastrous Situation through Analyzing the Number of Toilets

위생기구(변기) 수 분석을 통한 지하철역의 임시 대피인원 수용 능력 산정

  • Sohn, Byonghu (Building Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology) ;
  • Hwang, Eun-Kyoung (Building Research Department, Korea Institute of Construction Technology)
  • 손병후 (한국건설기술연구원 공공건축연구본부) ;
  • 황은경 (한국건설기술연구원 공공건축연구본부)
  • Received : 2013.03.08
  • Published : 2013.07.10
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Abstract

With advantages of open spaces and existing HVAC facilities, subway station, if unexpected disastrous situation happens on the ground, can be used as a temporary safe place for evacuees. The main objective of this study is to establish a guideline on estimating evacuation capacity of the subway station and evaluating levels of service of evacuation for officials to control the situation. This guideline includes available spaces of the station, capacity of sanitary fixtures, and total number of passengers, etc. In this paper, we first analyzed the number of passengers of SMRT (Line 5~Line 8) during AM peak hour and then evaluated the number of passengers using toilets at that time. In addition, we calculated the seating capacity of subway stations on SMRT using the difference between the actual number of toilets and the estimated number of ones from the occupancy time of each toilet.

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