Data for: Evacuation trials from a double-deck electric train unit: Experimental data and sensitivity analysis
Description
This dataset contains supplementary material for the article "Evacuation trials from a double-deck electric train unit: Experimental data and sensitivity analysis" accepted to Safety Science on September 24, 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105523). The paper describes a dataset obtained in a full-scale controlled experiment emulating the emergency evacuation of a double-deck electric unit railcar carried out in Prague in 2018. 15 evacuation trials involving 91 participants were conducted under various evacuation scenarios considering different compositions of passenger crowd, exit widths, and exit types (e.g. egress to a high platform, to an open rail line using stairs, and a 750 mm jump without any supporting equipment). The evacuation trials were conducted to cover all possible combinations of investigated boundary conditions (5 different widths of the main exit and 3 different types of exit for two different passenger groups, HOM and HET), defining altogether 30 different evacuation scenarios. Individual evacuation times for passengers in the trials are provided in the folder "Evacuation_times-raw". The paper aims to discuss and analyse the influence of boundary conditions on total evacuation time; therefore, the data must have been cleared from several undesirable effects. This is particularly important because there was only one trial per each scenario. The correction includes estimation of total evacuation time of 46 passengers for trials where only 42 passengers evacuated, and in two cases subtraction of delay caused by unexpected situations biasing the measurements. The corrected evacuation times are provided in the folder "Evacuation_times-corrected". Since the experimentally measured data is rather sparse and burdened with undesirable effects, the sensitivity analysis was performed not only for the experimental data, but the conclusions were supported by the sensitivity analysis of results from Pathfinder simulations. Total evacuation times obtained by means of the computer simulations are provided in the folder "Total_evacuation_time".