Predicting evacuation time using learnable building block method

Evacuation simulator is an important tool which can create solution for emergency circumstance. Evacuation simulation becomes more realistic but it has to tradeoff between memory consumption and processing time. This paper proposes a method to predict evacuation time by converting floor layout to building block structure and predicts evacuation time of each building block. Then we can use the predicted result to calculate total evacuation time of scenario without re-simulate whole scenario. The proposed method can reduce the processing time and memory usage which make user get total evacuation time faster but still maintain correctness of result.