Effects of human behaviour on the modelling of fire evacuation in a multi-storey passenger ship

• Main Author: Ho, Yei Ling.
• Other Authors: Tan Kang Hai
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Maritime studies::Maritime management and business
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15790
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Due to previous catastrophes involving a large number of fatalities on passenger ships, simulation of evacuation in a passenger ship is attracting more and more attention. A cellular automata (CA) model, which adopts the findings of human behaviour exhibited by passengers, is proposed to simulate th...