Abstract
This paper works on one of the most recent pedestrian crowd evacuation
models, i.e., “a simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation based
on various AI techniques”, developed in late 2019. This study adds a
new feature to the developed model by proposing a new method and
integrating it with the model. This method enables the developed model
to find a more appropriate evacuation area design, among others
regarding safety due to selecting the best exit door location among many
suggested locations. This method is completely dependent on the selected
model’s output, i.e., the evacuation time for each individual within the
evacuation process. The new method finds an average of the evacuees’
evacuation times of each exit door location; then, based on the average
evacuation time, it decides which exit door location would be the best
exit door to be used for evacuation by the evacuees. To validate the
method, various designs for the evacuation area with various written
scenarios were used. The results showed that the model with this new
method could predict a proper exit door location among many suggested
locations. Lastly, from the results of this research using the
integration of this newly proposed method, a new capability for the
selected model in terms of safety allowed the right decision in
selecting the finest design for the evacuation area among other designs.