As an important component of public transportation system in china, the motorcoach provides tremendous convenience for people to travel, but also leads to varieties of accidents with serious fatalities and enormous losses. However, little effort has been devoted to exploring the route choice behavior for passengers evacuating from a motorcoach due to the difficulties of obtaining experimental data. In this paper, the passengers’ route choice behavior during evacuation from a motorcoach with two doors was investigated by a questionnaire-based experiment with 150 passengers aged from 20 to 70. 134 effective questionnaires were collected and analyzed by SPSS. From the statistical results, the findings below were obtained: (1) kin behavior, queue composition, driver’s guidance, obstacle, position, congestion and danger have significant effects on the exit choice of passengers; (2) education level only affects the backtracking behavior; (3) no permanent effects of age and gender on route choice behavior were observed. This study could be helpful for safety design of motorcoaches and provide reference for emergency managers to devise evacuation schemes.

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