MODELING SAFEST AND OPTIMAL EMERGENCY EVACUATION PLAN FOR LARGE-SCALE PEDESTRIANS ENVIRONMENTS

Large-scale events are always vulnerable to natural disasters and man-made chaos which poses great threat to crowd safety. Such events need an appropriate evacuation plan to alleviate the risk of causalities. We propose a modeling framework for large-scale evacuation of pedestrians during emergency...

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Published in2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) pp. 917 - 928
Main Authors Haris, Muhammad, Mahmood, Imran, Badar, Maryam, Alvi, Muhammad Saad Qaisar
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2018
Subjects
Atmospheric modeling
Computational modeling
Libraries
Logic gates
Optimization
Planning
Safety
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Summary:Large-scale events are always vulnerable to natural disasters and man-made chaos which poses great threat to crowd safety. Such events need an appropriate evacuation plan to alleviate the risk of causalities. We propose a modeling framework for large-scale evacuation of pedestrians during emergency situation. Proposed framework presents optimal and safest path evacuation for a hypothetical large-scale crowd scenario. The main aim is to provide the safest and nearest evacuation path because during disastrous situations there is possibility of exit gate blockade and directions of evacuees may have to be changed at run time. For this purpose run time diversions are given to evacuees to ensure their quick and safest exit. In this work, different evacuation algorithms are implemented and compared to determine the optimal solution in terms of evacuation time and crowd safety. The recommended framework incorporates Anylogic simulation environment to design complex spatial environment for large-scale pedestrians as agents.
ISSN:1558-4305
DOI:10.1109/WSC.2018.8632418