Case Study
Lima Metro: Station Capacity and Evacuation Study
A TY Lin International team conducted various metro station simulations with SimWalk to verify station capacities and clearance times during a simulated emergency evacuation event. Compliance to Peruvian building codes and to NFPA 130 code (US National Fire Protection Association) were used to benchmark simu- lated performance measurements. Exit volumes applied to the platform level for the evacuation analysis included a full train (8