Simulation Study on Main Affect Factors to the Evacuation Corridor

Abstract:

The primary goal of emergency evacuation for pedestrians is evacuating as many people as possible to safe areas in a shortest time when the accident occurred. And the primary factor of pedestrian evacuation is egress. According to the literature, we can know that the reasonable design of the evacuation corridor and the right guidance to pedestrians are very important, and analyzed main affect factors to the evacuation corridor, which affect of the evacuation speed for corridor at different pedestrian flows intensity, the width of evacuation corridor, setting canalization to corridor and the size of space of corridor peripheral. This paper use VISSIM simulation software to study on pedestrian flows evacuation. So the formulation for pedestrian evacuation program should consider a variety of elements for the design of the evacuation egress and corridors to increase efficiency and reliability for pedestrian evacuation.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 170-173)
• Pages: 3533-3538
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.170-173.3533
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Yi Zhou Chen*, Si Jing Cai, Yun Feng Deng
• Keywords: Evacuation, Simulation, Social Force, Vissim

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