Lifts for Emergency Evacuation in Apartment Buildings

Ridesharing for Emergency Evacuation

In this paper, we consider the evacuation problem that consists of grouping and routing evacuees to safe zones. Grouping evacuees reduces congestion on roads, addresses fuel shortage, and supports individuals with limited access to transportation means. We propose a mixed integer programming model where individuals with vehicles are instructed to pick up others along their route in order to eva...

Three-Dimensional Modeling for Buildings Evacuation Management

Predicting Evacuation Capacity for Public Buildings

This paper demonstrates a solution for analyzing public space evacuation rates. Evacuating from a public building in a reasonable amount of time is reliant upon how safe the space is in terms of achieving a minimum time to move people outside. In order to increase the safety of evacuation in public spaces, we employed the Bayesian Belief Network method. To have a better estimation pattern, we h...

Opportunistic Communications for Emergency Evacuation

Evacuation is an important component of emergency and disaster response. In case of emergencies, people in and near the affected area need to be quickly alerted of the emergency and evacuated along safe routes. Evacuation also needs to be fast, especially when there is a spreading hazard such as fire or flood. However, finding the best (i.e. safest and fastest) escape path is complicated due to...

Factors Influencing Failure Emergency Evacuation in Work Environments during Fire

One of the necessary measures of saving human life in emergency situations, such as fires, is the safe and swift evacuation of people. The prerequisites for this are to anticipate, identify, and eliminate factors preventing people from leaving buildings in a timely and safe manner while moving them to a safe place [1]. The occurrence of errors caused by engineering, design, human, and psycholog...