Counterflow in Evacuations

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2011-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/1110.1494v1

Physics

Physics and Society

Preprint of TGF11 (Traffic and Granular Flow, Moscow, September 2011) conference proceedings contribution

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It is shown in this work that the average individual egress time and other performance indicators for egress of people from a building can be improved under certain circumstances if counterflow occurs. The circumstances include widely varying walking speeds and two differently far located exits with different capacity. The result is achieved both with a paper and pencil calculation as well as with a micro simulation of an example scenario. As the difficulty of exit signage with counterflow remains one cannot conclude from the result that an emergency evacuation procedure with counterflow would really be the better variant.

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