[starlogo-users] evacuation modelling

[kevin at media.mit.edu]

> For my degree thesis I am trying to model and evacuation of a city centre
> with the aim of identifying bottle necks and how long it could theoretically
> take. I was wondering if anyone else had done any behavioural modelling and
> could offer any advice / guidence or references.

You might find the following useful (full-text pdf available at the link):

Critical Review of Emergency Evacuation Simulation Models.
Santos, G.; Aguirre, B. E. Workshop on Building Occupant Movement  
During Fire Emergencies. Proceedings. Session 3.3. June 10-11, 2004,  
Gaithersburg, MD, Peacock, R. D.; Kuligowski, E. D., Editor(s)(s),  
27-52 pp, 2005.

http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire05/art012.html