Title :
A Network-Based Method for Modeling Pedestrian Evacuation in Indoor Areas
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. Sci., Inner Mongolia Univ., Hohhot, China
Abstract :
We develop a method to formulate pedestrians´ route choice behavior and physical congestion during evacuation process in indoor areas with internal obstacles. This method first constructs a network through discretizing the pedestrian space and then employs a proposed cell transmission model to predict the pedestrian flow´s evolution propagation over time and space in the network. It is quite remarkable that this method can be used to predict pedestrians´ evolution over time and space, especially in the indoor area with internal obstacles, and also formulate the collection behaviors of pedestrians through a bottleneck.
Keywords :
road traffic; set theory; cell transmission model; internal obstacles; network based method; pedestrian evacuation model; pedestrian flow evolution propagation; pedestrian route choice behavior; physical congestion; Buildings; Computer networks; Computer science; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Lattices; Legged locomotion; Optimization methods; Physics computing; Predictive models; collection; evolutionary network; pedestrian flow;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Science and Optimization (CSO), 2010 Third International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Huangshan, Anhui
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6812-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6813-3
DOI :
10.1109/CSO.2010.102
