An Agent-Based Approach to Simulate Post-earthquake Indoor Crowd Evacuation

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Lin Ni, Vicente González, Jiamou Liu, Anass Rahouti, Libo Zhang, Bun Por Taing

Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 01 Aug 2025PRIMA 2018EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: This work employs an agent-based approach to model indoor post-earthquake evacuations. The model incorporates heterogeneous agents with a dynamic physical indoor environment that is damaged by the earthquake. To realistically recreate the decision making process of building occupants, we use a dual-graph model which combines a navigation mesh to support agents’ physical movement and a perception graph to model cognition of the agents.