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The research of occupant evacuation in an emergency is of great benefit to building design and evacuation guidance. In this paper a microcosmic discrete evacuation model based on Cellular Automata (CA) is presented, in which the occupants’ individual characteristics are considered. Thus, our model has given a description of evacuation route choice with influencing factors, including: individual knowledge of the building, individual realization of the emergency development, and the attractive and repulsive force between occupants. This model differs somewhat from other models in the attention to the associative and separate effect of influencing factors, based on occupant’s behaviors. In addition, the model could reveal the phenomenon of escape in fire, as those simulations involving a fire condition have shown.
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Yang, L., Li, J., Zhao, D. et al. A microcosmic discrete occupant evacuation model based on individual characteristics. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 47, 608–615 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1360/03ye0292
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