Abstract
Means of escape of transportation facilities should be effective for evacuees including disabled persons. It is, therefore, important to develop methods for evaluating the effectiveness of means of escape for such persons to maintain evacuation safety. One way for the evaluation is an evacuation simulation. We are developing an evacuation simulation program to estimate evacuation time and the optimal escape route. It uses multi-agent method and can treat evacuees including disabled persons individually. Using the evacuation simulation program we calculate evacuation time and congestion time of several escape route arrangements of a barrier-free ferry. We discuss differences of means of escape from the viewpoint of evacuation time and congestion time.
