GIS-Based Researches On Emergency Evacuation Implementation Of Large-sized Railway Passenger Station

ABSTRACT:Large-sized Railway Passenger Stations usually have complex structures and high traffic, causing difficult evacuation,especially in emergency or peak-hours. So far, both home and abroad have done kinds of researches on emergency evacuation of large-sized public places and buildings, as well as simulations.However, there are still a lot to do to satisfy actual application requirements.The large-sized domestic passenger terminals do have many problems with emergency evacuation, as evacuation organization, department coordination, information dissemination, equipment control,etc.This paper presents a GIS-based implementation approach for emergency evacuation of Large-sized Railway Passenger Stations, core of which is to build an emergency evacuation support system, using GIS to analyze emergency effects, develop solutions(mainly including evacuation route optimization, emergency signboard display and customer equipments linkage), and guide the implementation plan.In this paper, researches foucs on overall structure, function modules and database of the emergency evacuation assistance system. According to the results of this study, a preliminary auxiliary system has been developed to demonstrate the practical application of GIS-based emergency evacuation implementation in Beijing South Railway Station, as an example.This paper's study has important significance. Refined and improved by future research, the GIS-based implementation approach for emergency evacuation would actually take on Large-sized Railway Passenger Stations'complex emergency evacuation assistance missions, greatly enhance the terminal's emergency response capabilities.