Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation

Chapter 8

Crowd Simulation Applied to Emergency and Evacuation Scenarios

João Emílio Almeida^*

Rosaldo J.F. Rossetti^*

Fábio Aguiar^**

Eugénio Oliveira^**    LIACC, DEI, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal^**    Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Abstract

Crowded spaces are prone to accidents and many casualties in case of fire or other emergency situations. They can happen in large buildings or urban spaces. Predicting crowds’ behavior is crucial for creating adequate simulators that practitioners can use for evaluating evacuation scenarios in such emergency cases. On the basis of a literature review of existing approaches to tackle this issue, a simulator called ModP was devised. ...