Evaluation on Emergency Drills with Pedestrian Simulation

Abstract

Though emergency drills should be executed to conceive several conditions, it only gets executed in a single evacuation route. In order to cover this shortcoming, this study make an evaluation on emergency drills by using a pedestrian simulation software, and suggest more better methods of drills. As the result of simulation of the action of drill of Yatsushiro Campus, conclusions are as follows. 1) The result of simulation is quite similar to practical actions of pedestrians, so that the software“SimTread”is useful for predicting the actions. 2) By using“SimTread”, we could find the evacuation method at a much faster time than at present.