Why are escape pods used instead of transporters whenever an alarm sounds to abandon the ship?

An interstellar spaceship carrying a thousand personnel was attacked by a group of space pirates while crossing the nebula. The nearest habitable planet is several light-hours away.

Help will only arrive in the next 12 hours and the spaceship's main propulsion drive had been sabotaged and unfortunately the antimatter containment unit is failing fast. Seemingly the weapons are useless against the space pirate's energy shields.

The captain has decided to initiate the self-destruction sequence and therefore issued an order for all crews to evacuate to the nearest escape pods.

I was wondering: wouldn't it be better to simply transport the crews off the spaceship instead of having everyone panicking and running around in a chaotic manner? Suppose the transporter is intact during the entire engagement with the space pirates and it is being disabled upon sounding the ship's alarm.

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