Paper Info
Title
Airport Emergency Evacuation Planning: An Agent-Based Simulation Study of Dirty Bomb Scenarios.
Abstract
Emergency evacuation from airports is an important consideration given the continuing occurrence of both natural and human caused disasters. Unfortunately, the traditional evacuation-drill approach to prepare for emergency situations presents several practical challenges at the scale and magnitude required for airports. In this paper, we present an agent-based model (ABM) called exitus which is capable of determining the extent to which collective behavior and overall evacuation time of passenger groups is affected by changes in the built environment for large, complex structures. The model is unique because it explicitly considers the physical and psychological characteristics of individuals with disabilities. In our first experiment, several bomb simulation scenarios were conducted at an international airport using exitus. Several important findings were revealed including: 1) the importance of stairway and exit configurations; 2) the inherent weaknesses of the pier airport design in affecting timely evacuations; 3) who the most vulnerable groups of people are; 4) the particular risk engendered from crowded or complex building interiors for individuals with disabilities; and 5) the potential problems caused by locating explosive detection system machines near passenger processing areas. The results of a second exploratory experiment also revealed the importance of realistically modeling psychological attributes of individuals with disabilities and their potential impact on collective evacuation performance. Overall the findings demonstrated the model's ability to generate a common operational picture capable of guiding preparedness efforts for both public and private organizations encompassing a wide variety of professional endeavor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TSMC.2015.2497213
IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Airports,Atmospheric modeling,Microscopy,Planning,Psychology,Computational modeling,Decision support systems
Emergency evacuation,Computer science,Common operational picture,International airport,Risk analysis (engineering),Artificial intelligence,Social group,Built environment,Simulation,Decision support system,Dirty bomb,Machine learning,Preparedness
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
10
2168-2216
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.47
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Manley1181.65
Yong Seog Kim211211.11
Keith M. Christensen3121.42
Anthony Chen420918.25