# High pressures in room evacuation processes and a first approach to the dynamics around unconscious pedestrians

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the dynamics of crowd evacuation under high-pressure conditions, modeling unconscious pedestrians as inanimate objects and analyzing how their behavior influences evacuation efficiency and crowd morphology.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel modeling approach for unconscious pedestrians in evacuation scenarios and explores how their behavior affects crowd dynamics and performance.

## Key findings

- Emergence of new crowd structures during evacuation
- Unconscious pedestrians impact overall evacuation efficiency
- Behavioral choices influence crowd morphology and flow

## Abstract

Clogging raises as the principal phenomenon during many evacuation processes of pedestrians in a panic situation. As people push to escape from danger, compression forces may increase to harming levels. Many individuals might fall down, while others will try to dodge the fallen people, or, simply pass through them. We studied the dynamics of the crowd for these situations, in the context of the "social force model". We modeled the unconscious (fallen) pedestrians as inanimate bodies that can be dodged (or not) by the surrounding individuals. We found that new morphological structures appear along the evacuating crowd. Under specific conditions, these structures may enhance the evacuation performance. The pedestrian's willings for either dodging or passing through the unconscious individuals play a relevant role in the overall evacuation performance.