A Quantitative Study of Factors Influence on Evacuation in Building Fire Emergencies

In order to decrease the casualties in fire disasters and to improve the efficiency of evacuation, exploring, and revealing the impact of influence factors on evacuation is of vital importance. This paper is focused on the influence of fire and human factors on evacuation processes directed by evacuation strategies in the building structure. Interactions between fire environment and evacuees are considered in a systematic view. Building artificial evacuation systems and performing computational experiments are the main research ways. A case is given to illustrate the research approach and quantitative results have been analyzed. The work in this paper can be used for optimizing occupant distribution and composition, estimating evacuation strategies, and ultimately for improving the evacuation efficiency.