Real-Time Evacuation Strategy Based on Cell-Inspired Simulation Model.

Abstract

During the evacuation process in an emergency, the route conditions usually change instantaneously, which makes routing selection a challenging work. To describe dynamic changes in the evacuation environment, this work proposes a real-time evacuation strategy based on a comprehensive route constraint in the framework of a cell-inspired simulation model, intelligence decision P system (IDPS). In our model, the comprehensive route constraint is formed to describe more complex road condition information including the total distance, congestion state, and unreliability of the route. Meanwhile, the IDPS model has been further improved in both the knowledge base description and the decision-making ability. Experiments are conducted to simulate five different scenarios in a fire evacuation. The results show that the evacuation strategy with a comprehensive route constraint has a significant improvement in the evacuation efficiency and has higher robustness. Which kind of route condition should be emphasized more in different evacuation scenarios is also analyzed.