A Simulation Study on Fire Evacuation Routes in Primary Stage for a Historic Canal Residential Area

Abstract

Nowadays, several previous studies have research about disaster emergency plan cause historic preservation areas are vulnerable to disasters rather than normal city area. The town of Khlong Bang Luang is a historic canal residential area, which is an old capital of Thailand in the past. This area is vulnerable to fire disaster. Because of the limited accessibility leads residents in this area to vulnerability for evacuate on emergency times. Furthermore, there are many wooden houses stand close, the narrow street between houses is inconvenient for evacuation and some of building materials are hazards to fire disaster. So this study proposes to simulate fire evacuation routes during emergency time by using applications to clarify the preparedness of the community planning for the best evacuation way. We hope that a guideline of multimodal evacuation will be provided based on the further study also in order to design architecture elements of the area.