Evacuation Simulation under Different Conditions using a Safest Path Routing Algorithm

Denis Shikhalev, Renat Khabibulin, Ulrich Kemloh, Sergey Gudin

2016

Abstract

In this contribution we propose a safest path route algorithm for determination of the safest path directions of pedestrians in case of fire. The model and the algorithms are implemented in an open source framework (JuPedSim) which is a research platform to simulate pedestrian dynamics. We found that increasing the importance of the obstruction criteria (responsible for people’s density) leads to a reduction of the total evacuation time. The proposed algorithm allows the even distribution of the evacuees to all available emergency exits, when there is an uneven distribution of people on the escape routes while avoiding a place with fire hazards. We simulate the evacuation of a shopping centre and showed that the application of the algorithm can reduce the total evacuation time up to 63% depending on the settings of the algorithm.

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in Harvard Style

Shikhalev D., Khabibulin R., Kemloh U. and Gudin S. (2016). Evacuation Simulation under Different Conditions using a Safest Path Routing Algorithm . In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-187-8, pages 62-69. DOI: 10.5220/0005834800620069


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis16,
author={Denis Shikhalev and Renat Khabibulin and Ulrich Kemloh and Sergey Gudin},
title={Evacuation Simulation under Different Conditions using a Safest Path Routing Algorithm},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2016},
pages={62-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005834800620069},
isbn={978-989-758-187-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Evacuation Simulation under Different Conditions using a Safest Path Routing Algorithm
SN - 978-989-758-187-8
AU - Shikhalev D.
AU - Khabibulin R.
AU - Kemloh U.
AU - Gudin S.
PY - 2016
SP - 62
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0005834800620069