AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION SYSTEM FOR HEAVY PASSENGER VEHICLES (HPV)

摘要

ABSTRACT An emergency evacuation system (100) for a Heavy Passenger Vehicle (HPV) (50), said emergency evacuation system(100) comprising an emergency determining system (10) for determining an emergency condition, a sliding system (20) attached to said HPV (50), a first panel (34) of said sliding system (20) adapted to extend from said HPV (50) to a ground level, a second panel (36) coupled to said sliding system, said second panel (36) slides on said first panel (34), a compressible member (38) coupled to said sliding system (20), said compressible member (38) adapted to facilitate supporting structure for said first and second panel (36) and an actuation system (32) coupled to one of the panel (34, 36) and/or the compressible member (38) to facilitate emergency evacuation in response to said emergency condition.