Project Overview

Everyone hates the inconvenience of fire drills, but we all appreciate why we have them. Getting everybody out quickly and safely in an emergency must be a major objective in a crisis response. Evacuation Plan Simulator enables you to simulate occupant behaviour in the event of a building evacuation, identify potential problems and verify benefits from IT solutions. 

People

• Sharad Mehrotra (Faculty)
• Nalini Venkatasubramanian (Faculty)
• Chris Davison (Technology Manager)
• Qi Zhong (Ph.D. Student)
• Vidhya Balasubramanian (Ph.D. Student)
• Thomas Chen (Undergraduate Student)

Affiliates

Project Meetings

• Email list: simulator AT ics DOT uci DOT edu
• Minute(members only.)
• Slide
• Evacuation.ppt
• presentation.ppt

Publications

References

• RESCUE Project, http://www.itr-rescue.org
• Responsphere Project, http://www.responsphere.org
• SIMULATING BUILDING EVACUATIONS WITH A MODEL, Ronald Oldengarm, Eighth International IBPSA Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 11-14, 2003 [pdf]
• Traffic Simulator, http://vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de/~treiber/MicroApplet/
• Fire simulators:
  • http://www.farsite.org/
  • http://fire.org/
  • http://www.frames.gov/tools/
• Simulex: simulation of occupant evacuation, http://www.iesve.com/content/default.asp?page=s1_2_1

Acknowledgement

• This project is generously supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0331707 and 0331690