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Risk Evaluation in Public Spaces Evacuation

In: Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

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  • Iancu Livia-Diana

    (Bucharest University of Economic Studies)

  • Camelia Delcea

    (Bucharest University of Economic Studies)

Abstract

Time is crucial in public buildings evacuation during an emergency as it can have a direct impact on the number of people injured, or on the gravity of the injuries. Designing emergency evacuation plans or proposing various alternatives to public buildings’ design, by considering the dynamic behavior of pedestrians, has the potential to reduce the congestion during the evacuation process, diminishing both the risk of injuries caused by the crowd dynamics and the evacuation time. Since public buildings are often crowded places, more attention should be given to the process of evacuation from these buildings and to their associated risks. The chapter addresses the highly complex problem of the evacuation from a public space by proposing an agent-based model in which elements related to both individual characteristics and risk evaluation are included. In the model, besides the elements related to crowd movement, different risks are analyzed and evaluated in real time. The values for these risks are available to the user through the model’s interface, which facilitates a real-time evaluation. Different scenarios are envisioned, simulated, and discussed in relation to the values of the calculated risks. Having this risk assessment option included in the agent-based model will help the decision-makers in better evaluating and comparing the simulated situations.

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  • Iancu Livia-Diana & Camelia Delcea, 2022. "Risk Evaluation in Public Spaces Evacuation," Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, in: Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Hakan Danis & Ender Demir (ed.), Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives, pages 127-141, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurchp:978-3-031-15531-4_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15531-4_8
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