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Counterflow in Evacuations

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Traffic and Granular Flow '11

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It is shown in this work that the average individual egress time and other performance indicators for egress of people from a building can be improved under certain circumstances if counterflow occurs. The circumstances include widely varying walking speeds and two differently far located exits with different capacity. The result is achieved both with a paper and pencil calculation as well as with a micro simulation of an example scenario. As the difficulty of exit signage with counterflow remains one cannot conclude from the result that an emergency evacuation procedure with counterflow would really be the better variant.

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    Tobias Kretz

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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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Kretz, T. (2013). Counterflow in Evacuations. 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_13

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