A study on the route selection problem for ship evacuation

Evacuation in a large-scale passenger ship is a complex process. During the ship design stage, in order to ensure that evacuees can evacuate to safe areas efficiently, it´s very important to select an optimum evacuation route and give evacuation training to each evacuee. For this purpose, we proposed a method to select an optimum evacuation route. From the perspective of simulation, each evacuee will select route considering the length of the passage, actual congestion and individual complex behavior attributes. Finally, we tested the feasibility of the proposed method in MATLAB software environment.