Behaviour and Perception-based Pedestrian Evacuation Simulation

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive pedestrian evacuation simulation integrating behavioral, psychological, and fire dynamics models to better understand human reactions during crises.

Contribution

It introduces a novel evacuation simulation combining pedestrian dynamics, fire behavior, visibility, and psychological cognition models for realistic crisis scenarios.

Findings

Enhanced simulation accuracy for evacuation scenarios

Insights into human reactions to smoke and fire

Integration of psychological factors into evacuation modeling

Abstract

This contribution reports on the research project SKRIBT and some of its results. An evacuation simulation based on VISSIM's pedestrian dynamics simulation was developed, that -- with high time resolution -- integrates results from studies on behavior in stress and crisis situations, results from CFD models for e.g. fire dynamics simulations, and considers visibility of signage and -- adding a psychological model -- its cognition. A crucial issue is the cognition of smoke or fire by the occupant and his / her resulting spontaneous or deliberate reaction to this episode.