Ship evacuation simulation: Challenges and solutions. Discussion. Author's closure

In the wake of major maritime disasters, and in light of the growth in the numbers of high density, high-speed ferries and large capacity cruise ships, issues concerned with the evacuation of passengers and crew at sea are receiving renewed interest. The High Speed Code introduced the concept of performing critical path analysis of the evacuation arrangements, SOLAS regulation II-2/28 1.3 required Ro-Ro passenger ships after 1 July 1999 to have an early design stage evacuation analysis performed and recently IMO has developed and issued Guidelines for Simplified Evacuation Analysis of Ro-Ro passenger vessels. The paper describes the development of such a tool and aspects associated with the collection of marine specific human performance data.