A Study on the Scenario of Evacuation Safety Analysis of Wide-Area Railroad Stations

Abstract

There are 1,416 railway stations in this country, of which 729 are underground stations. Moreover, more than 50% of the stations are constructed underground. Recently, the deep depth wide-area railroad has being designed and constructed. Railroads are the main means of transportation for the people and confirming evacuation safety in crowded underground spaces is a crucial subject. The functions of urban railroads and wide-area railroad underground stations built in urban underground spaces are the same. Nevertheless, there are differences between the station safety analysis scenario and the method used when they were designed. Through the analysis of evacuation scenarios and methods applied when evaluating the safety of underground stations, we propose procedures and standards for analyzing the safety of underground stations that can be applied to two types of railroads; the urban and wide-area railroads.