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Exit dynamics of occupant evacuation in an emergency

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  • Daoliang, Zhao
  • Lizhong, Yang
  • Jian, Li

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A two-dimensional Cellular Automata model is proposed to simulate the exit dynamics of occupant evacuation. Concerning the exit width and the door separation, we put forward some useful standpoints: (1) exit width should be bigger than a critical value, and the door separation should be neither too small nor too big; (2) for single-exit door, with the increase of exit width, the flux per unit width will decrease but the total flux will always increase; (3) the total flux of the exit is an increasing nonlinear function of the exit width; (4) the optimal value of the door separation does not vary with the value of exit width; (5) the layout of exits should be symmetry. Those results are helpful in performance-based design of building.

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  • Daoliang, Zhao & Lizhong, Yang & Jian, Li, 2006. "Exit dynamics of occupant evacuation in an emergency," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 363(2), pages 501-511.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:363:y:2006:i:2:p:501-511
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.08.012
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