Abstract
Upgrading many airports into 24 h hubs is inducing congested air traffic all over the world. Therefore, ensuring safety during airplane takeoffs and landings becomes extremely important. In this paper, an experimental verification for simulating airliner accident evacuation is presented. Evacuee motion is investigated by building an experimental field that emulates the interior of an actual regional airliner・ The experiment with almost 100 passengers showed that the evacuation time tends to be affected by the number of passengers and evacuee guidance for exiting. The results also indicate that any delay in exiting individual passengers causes minor effects on the total evacuation time because of evacuee congestion in the aisle. These results should be applied to existing 3D simulations using precise KDH models for more accurate evacuation/rescue simulations.
