MULTI-AGENT BASED SIMULATION OF ELDERLY EGRESS PROCESS AND FALL ACCIDENT IN SENIOR APARTMENT BUILDINGS

摘要

A means of egress from buildings is a critical aspect of building design and an important part of building fire regulations. However, elderly evacuees are often overlooked, being regarded as part of the average population, thereby ignoring the limitations elderly people may have. The computational egress model is a useful tool to evaluate postulated "what-if" scenarios, aiming to predict building egress performance under these designated scenarios. This paper first applies Multi-agent Based Simulation (MABS) supported by NetLogo to simulate the evacuation scenarios where evacuees are all elderly people, then statistical analysis is utilized to interpret results, and comparative analysis is conducted to offer some suggestions for egress design and crowd management.