Simulation of pedestrian evacuation in university canteen based on cellular automata

• Main Authors: Li, Yongxing, Wang, David Zhi Wei, Meng, Meng, Wang, Ke
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Civil engineering; University Canteen; Exit Choice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146582
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this study, we firstly build up an exit choice model to describe the pedestrians' exit choice behavior in a specific place, i.e., university canteens. The pedestrians are assumed to minimize their evacuation time in choosing exits by explicitly considering the estimated evacuation time and e...