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Table 5. Models No Longer in Use Characteristics/Model Fluid EgressPro BFIRES-2 VEgAS Avail to public N3 N3 N3/U N3/U Method Movement-O Movement Behavioral-RA Behavioral Structure Coarse Coarse Fine Fine Perspective of M/O Global Global Individual Individual People beh None None Conditional AI Import CAD drawings N N N Y Visual simulation Y N N Y Counterflow N N N N Manual exit block N N Y Y Fire conditions N Y Y Y Defining groups N N N Y Disabl/Slow occ grps N N Y N Delays/Pre-evacuation Y Y Y Y Rte. choice Optimal 1 route Conditional User-dfnd/Cond Elevator use N N N N Toxicity to occ N N Y-smk tolerance Y Impatience/Drive N N N N Occ distribution Optimization from rooms and to exits 1 choice only Various Various Table 6. Models - Availability Unknown Characteristics/Model Magnetic Model E-SCAPE Avail to public U U Method Movement Behavioral Structure Fine Coarse Perspective of M/O Individual Individual People beh Implicit Conditional Import CAD drawings N N Visual simulation Y Y Counterflow N N Manual exit block N N Fire conditions N Y Defining groups Y Y Disabl/Slow occ grps Y N Delays/Pre-evacuation Y Y Rte. choice 3 choices Conditional Elevator use N N Toxicity to occ N N Impatience/Drive N N Occ distribution UC – 3 choices Various 18
3.2 Overview of Model Features The purpose of this section is to generally describe the models that fall into the two main availability categories that users would be interested in: available to the public and available on a consultancy basis. As Table 1 shows, there are 13 evacuation models that are available to the public and 6 evacuation models available on a consultancy basis that are featured in this model review. Models Available to the Public Of the models available to the public, there are 6 movement models, 3 partial behavioral, and 4 behavioral models listed in Table 1. As mentioned earlier, the movement method is used to describe the sophistication of the model’s simulation techniques, i.e. the complexity of the modeling techniques used to simulate the egress situation and the occupant behavior throughout the evacuation. Table 1 also shows that two of the models, STEPS and PedGo, are labeled as both movement and partial-behavioral models. In STEPS, the use of groups with different characteristics, pre-evacuation times, and visualization could categorize this model as a partialbehavioral model. However, due to the basic movement and behavioral techniques used in both of these models, the movement category still applies. PedGo is a cellular automata model where one set of rules applies to all occupants regarding their movement, which is the reason to categorize the model as movement. However, the model is also labeled as partial behavioral because of the individual inputs that the user can assign to certain occupants, such as patience and reaction (assigned in seconds) and dawdle and sway (assigned stochastically to a certain percentage of the population). Generally, by labeling a model as “movement,” there are no behavioral options available to the user. The majority of the movement models contains coarse grid structures, contain global perspectives, do not incorporate fire data, and do not use CAD drawings. The STEPS and PedGo models are the exception here, allowing for a fine grid, individual perspectives, implicit behavior, and the use of CAD drawings. Lastly, the majority of the movement models do not allow for visualization, with the exception being WAYOUT, STEPS, and PedGo. There are three partial behavioral models that are available to the public. Of these, two of these move people continuously through the building with individual perspectives, whereas one of them, PEDROUTE, contains a coarse network with global perspectives. All three incorporate implicit behavior, the use of CAD drawings, and visualization, however none of them incorporate fire data. Lastly, there are four behavioral models that fall under the category of available to the public. The behavioral models contain a variety of different grid structures; however they all contain individual perspectives, have the capability of simulating fire situations, and visualize the evacuation. These models may or may not allow for the use of CAD drawings and range in the behavioral method from rules/conditional to artificial intelligence. Overall, independent of modeling method, these 13 models vary widely in their purpose, movement method, and validation techniques. With any ranking according to sophistication, the user should be aware that just because a particular input is available does not mean that the 19
Page 1: Technical Note 1471 A Review of Bui
Page 4 and 5: Disclaimer Certain commercial entit
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Page 46 and 47: A.3 TIMTEX Developer: S.S. Harringt
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Page 50 and 51: A.5 STEPS Developer: Mott MacDonald
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Page 54 and 55: A.6 PedGo Developer: TraffGo Purpos
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parameters yields realistic results
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A.11 buildingEXODUS Developer: E. G
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higher potential for a short time d
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level includes the movie player, da
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• Occupants stop investigating if
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A.13 Legion Developer: Legion Inter
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• Qualitative reproduction of eme
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Validation studies: No publications
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Special features: Route choice of t
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Table A.8: Fruin data and correspon
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Validation studies: Validation was
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Table A.12: Building/Occupant chara
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A.18 CRISP3 Developer: J. Fraser-Mi
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maximum value. Lastly, the lower di
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A.19 EGRESS Developer: N. Ketchell,
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Movement algorithm The unimpeded me
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Disabilities/slow occupant groups -
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Occupant movement: Cellular automat
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graphical format in the article in
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not gained, and this is labeled as
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A.22 EXIT89 Developer: R.F. Fahy, N
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evacuation time and the number of o
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the ceiling. This is the same metho
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factor,” the current goal is chan
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Use of fire data: The model can acc
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• Physical scale - This scale is
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• Free - elevator is idle Use of
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are applied to the entire populatio
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A.26 EgressPro Developer: P. Simenk
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A.27 BFIRES-2 Developer: F. Stahl,
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types of subroutines consist of tho
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• Boundaries of room subdivisions
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Fire Influence Smoke Influence Prox
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Model Availability Unknown A.29 Mag
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A.30 E-SCAPE Developer: E. Reisser-
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affected by the movement of others,
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A.31 References 1. Nelson, H. E. (2
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28. Barton, J. and Leather, J. (199
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57. Gwynne, S., Galea, E. R., Lawre
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86. Lo, S. M. & Fang, Z. (2000). A
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