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Some Empirical Studies on Evacuation from a Hall

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Studies on egress time and spatio–temporal progression of pedestrians inside a hall are important for design of exits of halls. In this study experiments on evacuation from a hall are conducted to understand the impact of exits and the geometry of the flow space on pedestrian flow. The width of the door openings as well as number, shape, size and positioning of obstacles are varied to change the nature of the goals and the geometry of the flow space. Results from this study explain how evacuation time from an enclosed space varies with number of persons inside the flow space and nature of exits present in the flow space as well as geometry of the space. Results also show how pedestrians distribute themselves inside the flow space while evacuating due to the above mentioned variations in the flow space. These results may help in designing enclosed space geometry and exits.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, 769 008, India

    Ujjal Chattaraj

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208 016, India

    Partha Chakroborty

  3. Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Armin Seyfried

  4. Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstraße 11, 42285, Wuppertal, Germany

    Armin Seyfried

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Valery V. Kozlov

  2. Moscow State Automobile & Road Technical University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander P. Buslaev

  3. Russian Academy of Sciences, Electronics Institute and Kotel’nikov Radioengineeering, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander S. Bugaev

  4. Mathematical Cybernetics Department, Moscow Technical University of Communications & Informatics, Moscow, Russia

    Marina V. Yashina

  5. Universität Köln, Institut Theoretische Physik, Köln, Germany

    Andreas Schadschneider

  6. und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen Physik von Transport, Duisburg, Germany

    Michael Schreckenberg

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Chattaraj, U., Chakroborty, P., Seyfried, A. (2013). Some Empirical Studies on Evacuation from a Hall. In: Kozlov, V., Buslaev, A., Bugaev, A., Yashina, M., Schadschneider, A., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Traffic and Granular Flow '11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39669-4_21

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