Inadequate guidelines for the manual of fire emergency procedure could result massive damage subway passengers evacuation. Information about the early situation of fire propagation is important for the judgment of suppression and safe evacuation during the emergency response. Practical procedures for fire emergency are suggested on the flow chart with required activities and actions to take und...

Pedestrian evacuation from underground building in emergency situations could be influenced by the structure of buildings, characteristics of pedestrian movement and seriousness of emergency events. To understand the evacuation process of pedestrian in emergency, evacuation drills on an underground retail store and a questionnaire survey are conducted. The characteristics of human evacuation be...

The need to safely evacuate within very short time a large number of people from a confined space, such as the superstructure of large passenger ships, is a difficult task of great practical interest, as documented in recent discussions at the Marine Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (MSC-IMO). This paper describes the methodology utilized by the code EVDEMON (EVacuati...

Evacuation and shelter in place are two common protective action measures during hazardous events that involve the release of hazardous materials. These responses are complex and require advanced planning to determine their appropriateness to reduce human exposure to hazardous materials and minimize related health risks. Evacuation and shelter in place responses were assessed for people in the ...

The recent commercial launch of twin-deck Very Large Transport Aircraft (VLTA) such as the Airbus A380 has raised questions concerning the speed at which they may be evacuated 1. The abnormal height of emergency exits on the upper deck has led to speculation that emotional factors such as fear may lead to door delay, and thus play a significant role in increasing overall evacuation time 2. Full...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph modelling a building or road network in which edges have-both travel times (lengths) and capacities associated with them. An edge’s capacity is the number of people that can enter that edge in a unit of time. In emergencies, people evacuate towards the exits. If too many people try to evacuate through the same edge, congestion builds up and slows down the evacuation. Gr...

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This paper examines different evacuation strategies for systems where several rooms evacuate through the same means of egress, using microscopic pedestrian simulation. As a case study, a medium-rise office building is considered. It was found that the standard strategy, whereby the simultaneous evacuation of all levels is performed, can be improved by a sequential evacuation, beginning with the...

This paper introduces the concept of process evacuation, a technique for moving processes between processing elements in the presence of faults. The technique forms part of the RaFT support environment, a framework for building fault-tolerant applications on transputers. The paper describes the layered structure of the support environment and how process evacuation fits into this structure. Fin...

We propose a new platform that consists of new traffic simulator and scenario generator. The traffic simulation system using GPGPU that enables to simulate rescue and evacuation simulation with more agents and faster than the present system. And it can simulate agents’ motions in a three-dimensional map. Our proposal provides a platform to widen the applications of RCRS, such as crowd evacuatio...