Evacuation Plans and Simulations for Crowd Egress – A Review

Abstract

Due to growing population density and increasing complexity and congestion of human habitat evacuation planning is essential to avoid major loss of life during a natural or un-natural disaster. The paper provides a review of existing evacuation systems and strategies and also points out the possible research directions. Intelligent Evacuation Management System coupled with evolutionary and machine learning techniques such as PSO,ACO , k -mean clustering is a promising solution to ensure safe and jostle free egress of people. .