Extended floor field CA model for evacuation dynamics
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The floor field model, which is a cellular automaton model for studying evacuation dynamics, is investigated and extended. A method for calculating the static floor field, which describes the shortest distance to an exit door, in an arbitrary geometry of rooms is presented. The wall potential and contraction effect at a wide exit are also proposed in order to obtain realistic behavior near corners and bottlenecks. These extensions are important for evacuation simulations, especially in the case of panics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0306262,
title = {Extended floor field CA model for evacuation dynamics},
author = {Katsuhiro Nishinari and Ansgar Kirchner and Alireza Namazi and Andreas Schadschneider},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0306262},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 17 figures