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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2012.26.3.001

Experiments of Egress Behavior When Subway Car Stops on Railroad  

Kim, Jong-Hoon (Dept. of Fire Safety Administration, Kyungmin Univ.)
Kim, Woon-Hyung (Dept. of Fire Safety Administration, Kyungmin Univ.)
Lee, Duck-Hee (Korea Railroad Research Institute)
Jung, Woo-Sung (Korea Railroad Research Institute)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.26, no.3, 2012 , pp. 1-7 More about this Journal
Abstract
When the subway car stop on track, passengers have to overcome a height of 1.2 m from floor level of the subway car to the level of track for evacuation. In this experiments, participates in the group of twenties or under ages were rapidly jumping down from the subway car. However, Most elderly group were not easy to overcome the height without help of others and some of them were fell and injured. In case of merging flows, the flow rate of the group of twenties was lower than the other cases. If fire occurred in the train and train stopped in the tunnel, it will be needed a lot of total evacuation time because of the heigh difference and wall effect from subway car to outside.
Keywords
Egress; Subway car; Experiment; Tunnel; Fire;
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