Fast Crowd Evacuation Planning System for Disaster Management

Abstract

Last few decades witnessed the occurrence of various natural and man-made disasters that were difficult
to control, thereby leading to heavy casualties. To overcome these, preventive measures like
the design of the building, coordinated pre-planning, etc., needs to be done. To reduce the casualties
during fire disaster and to enhance the evacuation efficiency, it is important to consider the impact
of factors which influence the evacuation. The effect of human and fire factors depend on strategies
used for evacuation in the building architecture. This paper presents a method for fast crowd evacuation
and safety management, thereby improving the efficiency of evacuation.