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Pedestrian Egress Behavior During Classroom Evacuation: A Simulation Approach

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Pedestrians evacuation is a multi-agent system which composed of pedestrians with interaction. Usually, special flow of pedestrians’ evacuation occurs in emergency situation such as in case of fire. Interactions between pedestrians become more complicated, when all pedestrians moving towards a bottleneck area. The objective of this study was to examine the egress behavior of pedestrians during panic situation in a classroom environment. The results revealed that the pedestrians behave aggressively in order to evacuate themselves from the bottleneck area and different number of exit in the classroom gives different route choice during the evacuation process.

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This study is funded by Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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  1. Lecturer, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    Masria Mustafa & Yasmin Ashaari

  2. PhD Student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    Zanariah Abd Rahman

  3. Undergraduate Student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

    Mohamad Noor Faiz Mohamad Najid

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  1. Institute for Infrastructure Engineering and Sustainable Management (IIESM), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

    Rohana Hassan

  2. Institute for Infrastructure Engineering and Sustainable Management (IIESM), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

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  3. Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

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  4. Institute for Infrastructure Engineering and Sustainable Management (IIESM), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

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Mustafa, M., Rahman, Z.A., Najid, M.N.F.M., Ashaari, Y. (2014). Pedestrian Egress Behavior During Classroom Evacuation: A Simulation Approach. In: Hassan, R., Yusoff, M., Ismail, Z., Amin, N., Fadzil, M. (eds) InCIEC 2013. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-02-6_37

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