Simulation Model for Urgent Evacuation at Aircraft Accident

In this paper, the urgent evacuation behavior of passengers at aircraft accident is formulated as a simulation model which consists of two models such as a two-dimensional grid cell model and an autonomous and multiple agents' system model. The former model represents the layout of cabin interior and the allocation of passengers. On the other hand, the latter shows the behavior of evacuation of passengers from inside of a cabin to outside of an aircraft using emergency equipments such as an emergency exit and escaping slide. This autonomous agent is able to obtain the necessary information for urgent evacuation within one's field of view and decide to select the escaping route by means of obtained information concerned with escaping path to the nearest emergency exit. By the comparable study between the results of the proposed simulation and the accident analysis reports on “Garuda Indonesia Airways Accident on 1996” and “China Airline Accident on 2007 ,” it is verified that the proposed simulation system enable one to estimate the situation of urgent evacuation in the aircraft accident.