Analysis of the Crowd Evacuation Modeling Approaches for the Case of Urban Underground Spaces

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• 作者：Despina Papakonstantinou ; ^{depapakon@gmail.com} ; Andreas Benardos ; Anastasios Kallianiotis ; Maria Menegaki
• 关键词：Crowd evacuation ; Safety of underground space ; Evacuation modeling
• 刊名：Procedia Engineering
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：165
• 期：Complete
• 页码：602-609
• 全文大小：714 K
• 卷排序：165

文摘

The growing need for more and more complicated underground urban systems has resulted to the development of a challenging environment for the setting up of effective evacuation procedure. The special circumstances and complexity, which characterize the underground spaces, as well as the severity of the consequences if an accident occurs, stimulated the research for different evacuation approaches in urban environments, in order to improve the efficiency of emergency evacuation and prevent crowd casualties in potential accidents, especially in the case of fire. The paper presents the most well respected standards, guidelines and regulations enforced worldwide, aiming to preserve the safeguarding of life and property against fire, explosion, and related hazards associated with developed subterranean spaces. Moreover, the evolution of underground evacuation approaches, from prescriptive methods to contemporary performance methods is displayed, followed by the examination of the approaches in crowd evacuation practices. Finally, the paper presents and analyses the factors being taken into account for planning the evacuation process, as illustrated through cases where modeling is conducted with special software codes.