Passenger Ship Evacuation Simulation and Validation by Experimental Data Sets

Due to the rapid expansion of cruise travel market as well as in light of the great loss caused by several maritime disasters, passenger ship evacuation in case of emergency has received increasing attention recently. For safety reasons, IMO has introduced a series of guidelines for undertaking full-scale evacuation analysis and certification of large passenger ships in the design stage. In this paper, an agent-based microscopic evacuation model-CityFlow-M has been introduced by a passenger ship evacuation case, and then validated using data sets from a semi-unannounced assembly trail at sea, which consists of passenger response times, starting locations, ending areas as well as the arrival times in the assembling stations. The results predicted from CityFlow-M for this case were presented and compared with the experimental data, which shows CityFlow-M is eligible of simulating the assembling process in the passenger ship. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.