TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - The Effect of Pre-evacuation on Evacuation Times in the Simulex Model
JO  - Journal of fire protection engineering
A1  - Spearpoint, Michael J.
SP  - 33
EP  - 53
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
N2  - The evacuation time of a building in an emergency can be broken down into a number of constituent times including the pre-evacuation time and the travel time. This paper examines how distributions of pre-evacuation times affect the occupant travel time and hence their effect on the evacuation time in the Simulex model. A simple scenario is assessed mathematically and compared with the results from Simulex with further simulations carried out on a somewhat more complex scenario. Because we expect the pre-evacuation time to be characterized by a distribution of values, simply adding the maximum pre-evacuation time and the movement time over-estimates the evacuation time. Furthermore, when the preevacuation distribution is small the travelling and queuing effects dominate the simulated evacuation time. When the pre-evacuation distribution is large, then travel and queuing effects are not so important and it is the pre-evacuation time that dominates. Finally, the paper examines some aspects of the Simulex model in situations where there is a high occupant density in a space.<p />
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SN  - 1042-3915
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1042391504034742
ID  - ref1
ER  -