Evacuation simulation with communication for anti-disaster planning

Because art institutions in The Netherlands all too often do not include library collections in their emergency response programs, ARLIS/NL decided to prepare guidelines for disaster planning in art libraries. These guidelines, now on the website of ARLIS/NL, serve as a tool in the process of disaster planning and can be customised to the individual situation of each library. This article describes the setting up of the project and its results.

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Development of Tsunami Evacuation Simulation System for Disaster Prevention Plan in Urban Space

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction - HAI '19 ◽

10.1145/3349537.3352790 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Yasuo Kawai ◽

Yurie Kaizu

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Simulation System ◽

Disaster Prevention ◽

Evacuation Simulation ◽

Prevention Plan

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Integrated IEW-TOPSIS and Fire Dynamics Simulation for Agent-Based Evacuation Modeling in Industrial Safety

Safety ◽

10.3390/safety7020047 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 47

Author(s):

Wattana Chanthakhot ◽

Kasin Ransikarbum

Keyword(s):

Emergency Evacuation ◽

Industrial Sector ◽

Industrial Safety ◽

Dynamics Simulation ◽

Entropy Weight ◽

Fire Dynamics ◽

Evacuation Simulation ◽

Evacuation Modeling ◽

Agent Based ◽

The Impact

Emergency events in the industrial sector have been increasingly reported during the past decade. However, studies that focus on emergency evacuation to improve industrial safety are still scarce. Existing evacuation-related studies also lack a perspective of fire assembly point’s analysis. In this research, location of assembly points is analyzed using the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) technique based on the integrated information entropy weight (IEW) and techniques for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to support the fire evacuation plan. Next, we propose a novel simulation model that integrates fire dynamics simulation coupled with agent-based evacuation simulation to evaluate the impact of smoke and visibility from fire on evacuee behavior. Factors related to agent and building characteristics are examined for fire perception of evacuees, evacuees with physical disabilities, escape door width, fire location, and occupancy density. Then, the proposed model is applied to a case study of a home appliance factory in Chachoengsao, Thailand. Finally, results for the total evacuation time and the number of remaining occupants are statistically examined to suggest proper evacuation planning.

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