A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs
Multimodal transportation hubs serve as transfer points with the function of collecting, transferring, and distributing passengers and play a significant role in the entire multimodal transportation network. In an emergency, the development of an effective and efficient emergency evacuation strategy...
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| description | Multimodal transportation hubs serve as transfer points with the function of collecting, transferring, and distributing passengers and play a significant role in the entire multimodal transportation network. In an emergency, the development of an effective and efficient emergency evacuation strategy to evacuate passengers from multimodal transportation hubs is very important. This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive review on passenger emergency evacuations from multimodal transportation hubs, summarize the achievements, identify gaps in existing literature, thus to lay a solid foundation for future studies. This paper first reviewed studies on evacuee behavior characteristics in emergency evacuations, including pedestrian characteristics, pedestrian behavior characteristics, and pedestrian flow characteristics. Then evacuation models, including pedestrian evacuation models and multimodal transportation evacuation models, were investigated. In addition, a retrospective analysis was carried out for evacuation simulation. It is found that while many studies have been conducted on passenger emergency evacuations from multimodal transportation hubs, most of them focus more on evacuating pedestrians from inside to outside of hub buildings; the studies on evacuation at multimodal transfer points are limited. It is also found that most existing studies tried to establish a general model to handle all types of emergency evacuations; in fact, a model would be more efficient if it is just established for a specific emergency and for a specific type of hubs. Also, existing data collection methods may collect biased data; new data collection methods need to be explored to increase the accuracy of data collection. Future study directions include the evacuation at multimodal transfer points, interactive effects between individual pedestrian behavior and pedestrian group behavior, more specific types of emergency evacuations, more accurate data collection methods, and tradeoffs between cost and benefit in emergency evacuations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b0eb707effde44bea98cbaf1a577e3b02022-12-22T02:15:48ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online)2095-75642022-08-0194591607A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubsZhiman Xu0Qiang Bai1Yuqi Shao2Aihui Hu3Zhi Dong4College of Transportation Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710064, ChinaCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 15202492338.; College of Transportation Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710064, ChinaCollege of Transportation Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710064, ChinaCollege of Transportation Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710064, ChinaCollege of Transportation Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710064, ChinaMultimodal transportation hubs serve as transfer points with the function of collecting, transferring, and distributing passengers and play a significant role in the entire multimodal transportation network. In an emergency, the development of an effective and efficient emergency evacuation strategy to evacuate passengers from multimodal transportation hubs is very important. This paper aims to conduct a comprehensive review on passenger emergency evacuations from multimodal transportation hubs, summarize the achievements, identify gaps in existing literature, thus to lay a solid foundation for future studies. This paper first reviewed studies on evacuee behavior characteristics in emergency evacuations, including pedestrian characteristics, pedestrian behavior characteristics, and pedestrian flow characteristics. Then evacuation models, including pedestrian evacuation models and multimodal transportation evacuation models, were investigated. In addition, a retrospective analysis was carried out for evacuation simulation. It is found that while many studies have been conducted on passenger emergency evacuations from multimodal transportation hubs, most of them focus more on evacuating pedestrians from inside to outside of hub buildings; the studies on evacuation at multimodal transfer points are limited. It is also found that most existing studies tried to establish a general model to handle all types of emergency evacuations; in fact, a model would be more efficient if it is just established for a specific emergency and for a specific type of hubs. Also, existing data collection methods may collect biased data; new data collection methods need to be explored to increase the accuracy of data collection. Future study directions include the evacuation at multimodal transfer points, interactive effects between individual pedestrian behavior and pedestrian group behavior, more specific types of emergency evacuations, more accurate data collection methods, and tradeoffs between cost and benefit in emergency evacuations.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756422000551Multimodal transportation hubsEmergency evacuationPassengersPedestrian behaviorEvacuation simulation |
| spellingShingle | Zhiman Xu Qiang Bai Yuqi Shao Aihui Hu Zhi Dong A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online) Multimodal transportation hubs Emergency evacuation Passengers Pedestrian behavior Evacuation simulation |
| title | A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs |
| title_full | A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs |
| title_fullStr | A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs |
| title_full_unstemmed | A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs |
| title_short | A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs |
| title_sort | review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs |
| topic | Multimodal transportation hubs Emergency evacuation Passengers Pedestrian behavior Evacuation simulation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756422000551 |
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