From Unbalanced Initial Occupant Distribution to Balanced Exit Usage in a Simulation Model of Pedestrian Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper investigates a pedestrian simulation method aimed at automatically balancing exit usage by guiding pedestrians towards the earliest arrival points, starting from arbitrary initial distributions.

Contribution

It introduces a simulation-based approach that directs pedestrians to achieve more balanced exit usage, improving evacuation efficiency.

Findings

Method effectively balances exit usage in simulations

Reduces congestion at popular exits

Enhances evacuation time estimates

Abstract

It is tested in this contribution if and to which extend a method of a pedestrian simulation tool that attempts to make pedestrians walk into the direction of estimated earliest arrival can help to automatically distribute pedestrians - who are initially distributed arbitrarily in the scenario - equally on the various exits of the scenario.