A Multi-agent Simulation of Escape Panic

The modeling and simulation on evacuation has recently become a topic of great interest. We present an agent-based model to construct crowd evacuations for emergency response from an area under an explosion. Various types of agents are designed as well as the interactions of them are concerned in contrast to traditional models in which the total populations are considered to be consisted of identical individuals and the interactions between them are omitted. Different cases are taken into account to test the effect of our model by iterative simulations. At last, plenty simulation results suggest several effective ways to minimize the harmful consequences of such life-threaten events.