A Method for Generation of Congestion at Evacuation

Abstract

For development of evacuees' decision and action model under emergency situation such as fire or sinking in a ship, simulator experiment studies have been carried out by using the simulator based on virtual reality technology. In order to present subjects with realistic emergency circumstances, it is important to generate congestion by crowds of evacuees. Furthermore to develop a quantitative decision model it would be important to control characteristics of congestion quantitatively at simulator experiments. In this paper, the method by which density and walking speed of evacuees are controlled quantitatively is explained and the statistical characteristics of the congestion generated by this method are examined.