Observation Study the Walking Speed and Distribution of Ship’s Passengers as Basis for Passenger Evacuation Simulation

Abstract

Several marine accidents was occured in Indonesia. Passenger evacuation is considerd as the last defence, which is used for eliminating the consequences of marine accidents. According to the convention of Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), the passenger evacuation simulation shall be conducted for reviewing the evacuation route on ships. The pasenger evacuation time is limited 60 minutes for roro passenger ships and for passenger ship having three main vertical zone is limited less than 80 minutes. It is hipotesed that the walking speed and passenger distribution is not represented the character of all nation in the world. Therefore, this research focus on the observation walking speed and distribution in ferry, in order to ensure that whether the guideline (M.Sc. 1238) could be represented in the condition in Indonesia’s vessels or not. The results of research show that the diferences result of passenger evacuation simulation between Indonesia’s and guideline’s walking speed is much closed. On the contrary, the distribution of passenger on the ship in the guideline could not represent the real condition in Indonesia.