A Hybrid Simulation of Large Crowd Evacuation

Abstract

A Grid simulation infrastructure can facilitate a simulation comprising models of different grains and/or models of various types in nature to investigate large and complicated problems. On top of the infrastructure, a simulation of evacuating thousands of pedestrians in a large urban area has been constructed. A number of agent-based and computational models residing at two administrative domains operate together, which successfully presents the dynamics of the complex scenario at scales of both individual and crowd levels. Experimental results indicate that the proposed approach can effectively cope with the size and complexity of a scenario involving a large crowd.

Research Issues in Agent-Based Simulation for Pedestrians Evacuation

“…However, albeit the success of existing approaches, work on large scale ABS models has been rare. This is due to the lack of an effective modelling approach to deal with the size and complexity of such simulations, as well as the lack of an appropriate platform to handle such large systems [103].…”

A Comprehensive Study on Pedestrians’ Evacuation

“…Zone imitation under macroscopic procedure gives in the general stream of the group, though zone mimicked with microscopic model offers singular dimension practices perception. Largely, the proposed procedures run the two models all the while on pre-defined zones [102][103][104].…”

“…Three heterogeneous models had been built that were a computational microscopic crowd model, a pedestrian agent model, and a vehicle agent model to depict different parts and features of the big and compound simulated situation. From the output exhibited that suggested infrastructure is a feasible and capable method for big and compound simulation system [103]. In 2011, Sewall et al, for shared simulation of largescale vehicle traffic for virtual universes and enlarged airborne maps exhibited a different strategy, which dynamically combines continuum and discrete approaches.…”