Research Article
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation on Emergency Evacuation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_25, author={Chuanjun Ren and Chenghui Yang and Shiyao Jin}, title={Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation on Emergency Evacuation}, proceedings={Complex Sciences. First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009, Revised Papers, Part 2}, proceedings_a={COMPLEX PART 2}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Evacuation Escape Panic Repast Simphony}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_25} }- Chuanjun Ren
Chenghui Yang
Shiyao Jin
Year: 2012
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation on Emergency Evacuation
COMPLEX PART 2
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02469-6_25
Abstract
Crowd stampedes and evacuation induced by panic caused by emergences often lead to fatalities as people are crushed, injured, trampled or even dead. Such phenomena may be triggered in life-threatening situations such as fires, explosions in crowded buildings. Emergency evacuation simulation has recently attracted the interest of a rapidly increasing number of scientists. This paper presents an Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation using Repast software to construct crowd evacuations for emergency response from an area under a fire. Various types of agents and different attributes of agents are designed in contrast to traditional modeling. The attributes that govern the characteristics of the people are studied and tested by iterative simulations. Simulations are also conducted to demonstrate the effect of various parameters of agents. Some interesting results were observed such as "faster is slower" and the ignorance of available exits. At last, simulation results suggest practical ways of minimizing the harmful consequences of such events and the existence of an optimal escape strategy.
