Abstract: Aiming at the problem that panic emotion impairs the efficiency of emergency evacuation of crowds in the waiting hall of high-speed railway stations, this study focuses on constructing a simulation model of personnel evacuation in waiting halls considering panic emotion based on theories and methods such as the SEIRS model and the OCEAN model. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis of the influencing factors of panic emotion transmission and a simulation study on the optimal design of key influencing factors were carried out. The results of the sensitivity analysis show that equipment guidance has an extremely significant impact on the final panic ratio, while three factors (crowd size, the number of leaders and individual perception range) exert a significant influence on it. The results of the optimal design simulation indicate that under a given specific scenario, the optimal design values of four key factors (equipment guidance, crowd size, the number of leaders and individual perception range) related to evacuation efficiency can be further calculated. This study can provide theoretical and methodological guidance for the optimization of personnel evacuation behavior in the waiting halls of high-speed railway stations.

Key words: personnel evacuation, panic emotion transmission, SEIRS model, evacuation simulation, waiting hall