Optimising Throughput for Planning Building Evacuations

Abstract

An M/G/C/C state dependent queuing network can be used to explicitly represent the complicated behaviour of pedestrians in a restricted space layout.  The method to investigate pedestrian movements along different corridors in a topological network is implemented in this research.  The M/G/C/C analytical model was used to quantify the optimal arrival rates and their effects on the corridors' performance in terms of throughput, blocking probability, expected number of occupants in the system, and estimated travel time.  The optimal arrival rates were then determined by feeding these optimum arrival rates into its Network Flow Programming model.