Evacuation from a Complex Structure:  The Effect of Neglecting Heterogeneous Populations

Janne Gress Sørensen; Anne Dederichs

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.089

Evacuation from a Complex Structure: The Effect of Neglecting Heterogeneous Populations

Janne Gress Sørensen, Anne Dederichs

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Abstract

How is the total evacuation time of a mixed population and its subgroups predicted by the evacuation tool STEPS? Simulation using STEPS is compared with experimental data and evaluated based on individual total egress times. It was found that the total egress times were similar for the simulation and experiment, but the human behavior occurring in the experiment was not reproduced in the simulations.

Original language	English
Journal	Transportation Research Procedia
Volume	2
Pages (from-to)	792-800
Number of pages	9
ISSN	2352-1465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.089
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	The Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2014 - Nootdorp, Netherlands Duration: 22 Oct 2014 → 24 Oct 2014 Conference number: 7 http://www.ped2014.nl/

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Conference	The Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2014
Number	7
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Nootdorp
Period	22/10/2014 → 24/10/2014
Internet address	http://www.ped2014.nl/

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Keywords

Egress
Heterogeneity
Disability
Population
Behavior
Evacuation process
Modeling
hHuman behavior

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