Abstract
Although emergency signs are believed to play an important role in ensuring public safety in facilities during emergencies, in practice, specific and clear standards for placing emergency signs have not yet been established. This paper developed a heuristic algorithm based on the Lagrangian relaxation algorithm for optimizing emergency sign locations with consideration of light-occlusion effects. A cellular automaton (CA) evacuation model was then introduced, and based on this model, the evacuation efficiency of the optimized locations of emergency signs derived from the algorithm was verified, and was compared with the evacuation efficiencies of the same supermarket without and with existing emergency signs. The results showed that the proposed algorithm greatly enlarged the coverage of emergency signs and improved the evacuation efficiency. It was concluded that the proposed algorithm with consideration of light-occlusion effects is valid for application to the problem of location optimization of emergency signs in single-floor facilities.
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