SAFEgress: A Flexible Platform to Study the Effect of Human and Social Behaviors on Egress Performance
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Studies of past emergency events have revealed that occupants’ behaviors, local geometry, and environmental constraints affect crowd movement and govern the evacuation. Occupants’ social characteristics and the unique layout of the buildings should be considered to ensure that the egress systems can handle the actual occupants’ behaviors in egress. This paper describes an agent-based egress simulation tool, SAFEgress, which is designed to incorporate human and social behaviors during evacautions. Simulation results on two scenarios are presented. The first scenario illustrates the effects of exiting strategies adopted by the occupants on evacuation. The second scenario shows the influence of social group behavior on evacuation. By assuming different occupants’ behaviors using the prototype, engineers, designers, and facility managers can study the important human factors on an egress situation and, thereby, improve the design of safe egress systems and procedures.
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