A computer simulation model for emergency building evacuation with arena Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • During an emergency, such as fire, allowing occupants to safely exit from the building requires clear and established paths of escape. Designing these means of escape egress demands more than just calculating pedestrians flow rates and occupant loads. This paper describes a computer simulation model for emergency fire evacuation of an educational building with Arena. The large floor plan of the College of Architecture Building-A was divided into various subsystems in order to model within the technical limitation for the academic version of the Arena software that was used in this research. The simulation model helped in finding the congestion/queuing in corridor spaces, the maximum time taken by people to evacuate if a fire breakout, and the exit stairs' duration of use during evacuation. 2007 CRL Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • ENGINEERING INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMMUNICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

  • Haque, M. E., & Balasubramanian, S.

publication date

  • January 2007