- Author
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Kisko, T. M.
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Francis, R. L.
- Title
- Network Models of Building Evacuation: Development of Software Systems. Final Report. Year One.
- Coporate
- Florida Univ., Gainesville
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NBS GCR 82-417
December 1982
13 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NB81NADA2057
- Keywords
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buildings
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computer programs
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egress
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evacuation
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fire safety
- Abstract
- This report summarizes the efforts of the first year of a two year project to develop user friendly software for the network modeling of building evacuation. When the evacuation of a building involves the flow of people through well defined passageways, it is natural to consider the evacuation problem to be a network flow problem. EVACNET+ is a user friendly interactive computer program that accepts a user defined network model of a building, converts that model to a time expanded dynamic "transshipment" network, and solves the dynamic network using a capacitated minimum cost network flow algorithm. The solved dynamic network gives a time-dependent plan to evacuate the building in a minimum time, and identifies building evacuation bottlenecks. During year one, EVACNET+ was implemented to the point of preliminary testing.