Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building

Understanding crowd evacuation behavior is of utmost importance for large buildings in order to achieve efficient crowd monitoring and management. This paper presents the simulation and analysis of crowd evacuation pattern for a large building called Al Masjid An Nabawi, widely known as ‘the Haram,’...

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Main Authors:	Alginahi, Yasser M., Mudassar, Mohammed, Kabir, M. Nomani, Tayan, Omar
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Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2018
Subjects:	Q Science (General)
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spelling	ump-234852019-01-02T06:45:21Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23485/ Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building Alginahi, Yasser M. Mudassar, Mohammed Kabir, M. Nomani Tayan, Omar Q Science (General) Understanding crowd evacuation behavior is of utmost importance for large buildings in order to achieve efficient crowd monitoring and management. This paper presents the simulation and analysis of crowd evacuation pattern for a large building called Al Masjid An Nabawi, widely known as ‘the Haram,’ in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Legion Evac software is employed to simulate the crowd evacuation. During simulation, Legion computes various metrics that holistically reflect the crowd evacuation pattern, which captures the crowd evacuation behavior. We analyze the magnitude and temporal variations with respect to the general evacuation patterns (GEP) of the building. The magnitude is analyzed using the t-test, which is a hypothesis testing method. However, the temporal variations are analyzed using cross-correlation analysis. The GEP captures the general crowd evacuation behavior (across all sections) of the building by aggregating the evacuation patterns of each section of the building. The crowd evacuation simulation resulted in an evacuation time of 21 min to evacuate a population of approximately 170,000. The analysis of evacuation patterns shows that the evacuation pattern of different sections of the building differs significantly in magnitude, but has significant temporal similarity with respect to GEP. Finally, insights are derived from the analysis results, which aid in efficient crowd monitoring and management. Springer 2018 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23485/1/Analyzing%20the%20Crowd%20Evacuation%20Pattern%20of%20a%20Large%20Densely1.pdf Alginahi, Yasser M. and Mudassar, Mohammed and Kabir, M. Nomani and Tayan, Omar (2018) Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. pp. 1-16. ISSN 1319-8025 (print); 2191-4281 (online) (In Press) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-018-3411-z https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-018-3411-z
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description	Understanding crowd evacuation behavior is of utmost importance for large buildings in order to achieve efficient crowd monitoring and management. This paper presents the simulation and analysis of crowd evacuation pattern for a large building called Al Masjid An Nabawi, widely known as ‘the Haram,’ in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Legion Evac software is employed to simulate the crowd evacuation. During simulation, Legion computes various metrics that holistically reflect the crowd evacuation pattern, which captures the crowd evacuation behavior. We analyze the magnitude and temporal variations with respect to the general evacuation patterns (GEP) of the building. The magnitude is analyzed using the t-test, which is a hypothesis testing method. However, the temporal variations are analyzed using cross-correlation analysis. The GEP captures the general crowd evacuation behavior (across all sections) of the building by aggregating the evacuation patterns of each section of the building. The crowd evacuation simulation resulted in an evacuation time of 21 min to evacuate a population of approximately 170,000. The analysis of evacuation patterns shows that the evacuation pattern of different sections of the building differs significantly in magnitude, but has significant temporal similarity with respect to GEP. Finally, insights are derived from the analysis results, which aid in efficient crowd monitoring and management.
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author	Alginahi, Yasser M. Mudassar, Mohammed Kabir, M. Nomani Tayan, Omar
author_facet	Alginahi, Yasser M. Mudassar, Mohammed Kabir, M. Nomani Tayan, Omar
author_sort	Alginahi, Yasser M.
title	Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building
title_short	Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building
title_full	Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building
title_fullStr	Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building
title_full_unstemmed	Analyzing the Crowd Evacuation Pattern of a Large Densely Populated Building
title_sort	analyzing the crowd evacuation pattern of a large densely populated building
publisher	Springer
publishDate	2018
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23485/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23485/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23485/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/23485/1/Analyzing%20the%20Crowd%20Evacuation%20Pattern%20of%20a%20Large%20Densely1.pdf
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