Investigation of the Panic Psychology and Behaviors of Evacuation Crowds in Subway Emergencies

Jing Hong Wang, Wen Yu Yan, You Ran Zhi, Jun Cheng Jiang

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Abstract

A set of questionnaire is designed to investigate the panic related psychology and behaviors of evacuation crowds in subway emergencies. Field survey at a subway station in Nanjing, China is conducted. Based on 141 valid questionnaire samples, the correlations between some personnel characteristics and the evacuation panic are investigated. It is found that the gender, the education level and carrying-on luggage have strong correlation with the panic related psychology and behaviors, while the age and the safety knowledge do not have so strong correlativity as previous work indicated. Besides, different opinions of this work and previous work about the influence of education level on the evacuation panic are also compared.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)128-137
Number of pages10
JournalProcedia Engineering
Volume135
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event2015 7th International Conference on Performance-Based Fire and Fire Protection Engineering, ICPFFPE 2015 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 5 Dec 20156 Dec 2015

Keywords

  • behavior
  • evacuation panic
  • psychology
  • questionnaire survey
  • subway evacuation

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