Evacuation from Cramped Interiors with Aisle Seats: Uncertainty Induced by the Random Choice of Initial Positions
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https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2024.183Keywords:
Uncertainity analysis, Evacuation, Simulation, Agent heterogeneity, Initial seating positions, Energy based descriptionAbstract
Considering evacuation from cramped interiors with aisle seats, the initial seating positions of pedestrians represent a non-negligible source of variance in total evacuation time. By means of Pathfinder simulations, this uncertainty is quantitatively investigated for a train and lecture hall geometry with homogeneous and heterogeneous groups of agents. Furthermore, an energy-inspired description of the occupation configuration is introduced that enables a proper numerical representation of the configuration space of the initial seating positions.
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