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Published on: February 11, 2014
Effect of form of obstacle on speed of crowd evacuation
1Tokio, Marine and Nichido Risk Consulting Co. Ltd., 1-5-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
This paper investigates the effect of the form of an obstacle on the time that a crowd takes to evacuate a room, using a toy model. Pedestrians are modeled as active soft matter moving toward a point with intended velocities. An obstacle is placed in front of the exit, and it has one of four shapes: a cylindrical column, a triangular prism, a quadratic prism, or a diamond prism. Numerical results indicate that the evacuation-completion time depends on the shape of the obstacle. Obstacles with a circular cylinder (C.C.) shape yield the shortest evacuation-completion time in the proposed model.
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