Agent Analysis

(updated 30th November 2007)

Keywords: Pedestrian Evacuation, simulations, simulating crowds, simulating behaviour, simulating people

"Economic and space restraints must receive due consideration. It is unrealistic to insist upon the highest service standards if the available physical space or financial resources are not sufficient to accommodate the design. A much better approach is to recognize the difficulties enforced by such restraints, and to seek alternative design solutions or operating procedures that will alleviate them. The one overriding consideration that precludes acceptance of economic or space restraints is pedestrian safety."  Fruin. Pedestrian Planning and design.

Our agent analysis tools allow the user to zoom (dynamically) into the models. Clicking on the screen changes the display from agents to density, speed, space utilisation and position maps (see below).

The agent models show density, speeds, space utilisation and agent location. The information is stored as a file so the data can be displayed in 3D CAD tools (such as 3D Studio Max)

Below - models using agent to assess the throughput of specific geometric designs.

Below - levels of service keyed to the agent locations - users can observe the dynamics of crowd density during the simulation

Egress Analysis (below) of an office block showing the high density (red) areas during an emergency evacuation.

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Below - Station platform evacuation model