Standard for Fire Safety in Rapid Transit Systems - Singapore Civil ...

SECTION 2.2
STATION MEANS OF ESCAPE
2.2.1 GENERAL General
2.2.1.1 The provisions of this section of the Standard shall serve to
express the intentions for determining the design,
construction, protection, location, arrangement and
maintenance of exit facilities to provide safe means of escape
for occupants.
2.2.2 OCCUPANT LOAD
2.2.2.1 Except as required in Cl.2.2.2.4 and Cl.2.2.2.5, the occupant
load for a transit station shall be:
(a) The cumulative occupant load for all platforms in the
station calculated in accordance with Cl.2.2.2.2 and
Cl.2.2.2.3.
(b) Based on the peak hour patronage as projected for the
design of the transit system.
2.2.2.2 The maximum occupant load for each platform in a station
shall be calculated based on:
(a) The greater of the a.m. or p.m. peak period loads.
(b) The simultaneous evacuation of the entraining load
and the link load.
(c) The entraining load and link load for each track shall
be based on the entraining load and link load per
headway multiplied by the following:
(i) The system surge factor, and
(ii) In the peak direction, an additional factor of 2
to account for one missed headway.
(d) The maximum link load at each track shall be the
maximum passenger train capacity.
See guide in Appendix A.
Occupant load
for transit
station
Maximum
occupant load
for each
platform
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