Double-Deck Rail Car Egress Experiment: Microscopic Analysis of Pedestrian Time Headways

Evacuation trials from a double-deck electric train unit: Experimental data and sensitivity analysis

“…The additional times were obtained using linear extrapolation of the egress times for the last 7 passengers in the HOM group, following the assumption that 4 additional passengers would have exited in a similar manner as the 7 participants before them. This assumption was supported by time-headway analyses [46]. This method of adding artificial times to the HOM group was preferred over the option of discarding four observations from the HET group, because in every trial, participants were egressing in different orders.…”

Methodology for Assessing Fire Risk in Double-Deck Trains

“…However, in most cases, fires occur in carriages while driving along the route. And the evacuation time from double-deck cars will obviously be much longer [3,4]. The level of the expected risk to life (ERL) values in double-deck trains may exceed the standard value.…”