Static floor field and exit choice for pedestrian evacuation in rooms with internal obstacles and multiple exits.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100083, China.

Published: August 2008

A modified floor field model is proposed to simulate pedestrian evacuation in rooms with internal obstacles and multiple exits. The modifications lie in developing a method to calculate the static floor field for every lattice site, which is determined by the most feasible distance to an exit, and employing a logit-based discrete choice principle to govern the exit selection. Simulation results show that the evacuation time is sensitive to the exit position and some model parameters. For pedestrians unfamiliar with the exit location, additional doors may not be necessary and can cause a negative effect on evacuation time. It is also found that unfamiliarity with the room's inner configuration and blindly following others will lead to an increase of the evacuation time.

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