An Improved Simulation Model for Pedestrian Crowd Evacuation

Danial A. Muhammed, Tarik A. Rashid, Abeer Alsadoon, Nebojsa Bacanin, Polla Fattah, Mokhtar Mohammadi and Indradip Banerjee
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Danial A. Muhammed: Computer Department, College of Science, University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah 46001, KRG, Iraq
Tarik A. Rashid: Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Kurdistan Hewler, Erbil 44001, KRG, Iraq
Abeer Alsadoon: Department of Information Technology, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Bathurst, NSW 2795, Australia
Nebojsa Bacanin: Faculty of Informatics and Computing, Singidunum University, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Polla Fattah: Software and Informatics Engineering Department, Engineering College, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Erbil 44001, KRG, Iraq
Mokhtar Mohammadi: Department of Information Technology, Lebanese French University, Erbil 44001, KRG, Iraq
Indradip Banerjee: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal 713101, India

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-14

Abstract: This paper works on one of the most recent pedestrian crowd evacuation models—i.e., “a simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation based on various AI techniques”—which was developed in late 2019. This study adds a new feature to the developed model by proposing a new method and integrating it into the model. This method enables the developed model to find a more appropriate evacuation area design regarding safety due to selecting the best exit door location among many suggested locations. This method is completely dependent on the selected model’s output—i.e., the evacuation time for each individual within the evacuation process. The new method finds an average of the evacuees’ evacuation times of each exit door location; then, based on the average evacuation time, it decides which exit door location would be the best exit door to be used for evacuation by the evacuees. To validate the method, various designs for the evacuation area with various written scenarios were used. The results showed that the model with this new method could predict a proper exit door location among many suggested locations. Lastly, from the results of this research using the integration of this newly proposed method, a new capability for the selected model in terms of safety allowed the right decision in selecting the finest design for the evacuation area among other designs.

Keywords: evacuation models; simulation; exit locations; evacuation area design; evacuation time; management; improved pedestrian crowd evacuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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