Abstract: The rail transit is one of the important modes of the public transportation, and its safety operation is crucial. Based on the passenger volume and structure features that have been obtained through the field investigation in Chongqing Lianglukou railway station in China, a multi-level rail transit transfer station simulation model is built to analyze the evacuation process of pedestrians in the consideration of explosion and other emergencies by the software AnyLogic. The evacuation routes and evacuation time of passengers during emergency evacuation in a rail transit transfer station are studied. The research aims at verifying the emergency evacuation capacity of the station, and obtaining the results that could be used for reference in the emergency evacuation design. The simulation result demonstrates that the whole evacuation time is 338 s in the study case, which complies with the ‘6 min' principle in the ‘Code for design of metro'. Besides, the proposed evacuation routes could be the useful reference for the practical management.

Key words: rail transit transfer station, emergency evacuation, evacuation time, evacuation route, simulation