Efficient and validated simulation of crowds for an evacuation assistant

  • Authors:
  • Armel Ulrich Kemloh Wagoum;Mohcine Chraibi;Jonas Mehlich;Armin Seyfried;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Affiliations:
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, 52428 Jülich, Germany and Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic, Bergische Universität ...;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, 52428 Jülich, Germany and Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic, Bergische Universität ...;VEDA GmbH, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 14, 52477 Alsdorf, Germany;Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, 52428 Jülich, Germany and Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic, Bergische Universität ...;Institute for Theoretical Physics, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

To improve safety at mass events, an evacuation assistant that supports security services in case of emergencies is developed. One central aspect is forecasting the emergency egress of large crowds in complex buildings. This requires realistic models of pedestrian dynamics that can be simulated faster than real-time by using methods applied in high performance computing. We give an overview of the project and present the actual results. We also describe the modeling approaches used thereby focusing on the runtime optimization and parallelization concepts. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.