Abstract
Sometimes subway stations and trains can be very crowded for large passenger flows. However, some stations and trains may be vulnerable when natural or man-made disasters happen, thus the safety of passengers and stuff is threatened. Therefore, it is meaningful to make a deep analysis to these disasters that may happen in subway stations and trains. By collecting cases of accidents include fire disaster, terrorist attack, flood, earthquake and stampede that happened in subway stations or on trains around the world, the causes, consequence and their own characters were analysed. Besides, some recommendations and beneficial measures aim to prevent these disasters mentioned above were also presented and discussed.
Highlights
In recent years, subway has become the first choice for many cities to solve traffic problems for its advantages of high efficiency, large capacity, low pollution and punctual arrivals
The subway station is a crowded place with just several accesses to the outside, which makes the subway station an ideal place for attacks in the eyes of terrorists
In order to make a clear understanding to the subway terrorist attacks, analysis based on statistic were made in this paper
Summary
Subway has become the first choice for many cities to solve traffic problems for its advantages of high efficiency, large capacity, low pollution and punctual arrivals. The large number of passengers make some subway stations and subway trains become “crowded places”, especially in peak hours. When emergency or disasters happen in “crowded places”, the results can be serious. Most subway stations are located underground, natural disasters such as flood and earthquake may cause serious influence to them. Man-made disasters such as fire, terrorism attack can result in devastating consequence. Natural and man-made accidents cases include fire disaster, terrorist attack, flood, earthquake and stampede which happened in the. Https://doi.org/10.10 51/matecconf /201927201031 subway stations and trains around the world are collected. These accidents are analyzed, and some measures aim to prevent these disasters are presented and discussed
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