Hindawi Journal of Advanced Transportation Volume 2020, Article ID 8791503, 12 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8791503 Research Article Emergency Evacuation Simulation and Optimization for a Complex Rail Transit Station: A Perspective of Promoting Transportation Safety Hui Xu ,1,2 Cheng Tian,1 and Yang Li1 1School of Economics and Management, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China 2Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive 117566, Singapore Correspondence should be addressed to Hui Xu;
[email protected] Received 11 March 2019; Revised 26 September 2019; Accepted 19 October 2019; Published 7 January 2020 Academic Editor: Francesco Galante Copyright © 2020 Hui Xu et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Rail transit stations with multioor structures have been built in many cities to intensively utilize land resources and facilitate lives of community. However, being overcrowded with passengers results in high risks during daily operation. In response, this study conducted an emergency evacuation simulation and optimization in the three-dimensional (3D) space of “complex rail transit stations” (CRTSs). e aim of the paper is to provide a methodology to determine eective emergency evacuation strategies for CRTSs. e Lianglukou Rail Transit Station in Chongqing, China, was used as a case study and the AnyLogic simulation platform employed for simulating emergency evacuations. An emergency evacuation theoretical framework was established. e emergency evacuation strategies, including evacuation routes and evacuation times, were determined based on the theoretical demonstration.