EVACUACIONES DE EMERGENCIA CON PRESENCIA DE GRUPOS SOCIALES

Abstract

In this work we study how the presence of social groups affect emergency evacuations. This investigation was carried out in the context of the Social Force Model (SFM). We added an attractive force to the SFM, which accounts for the affective feelings that the members of social groups share (colleagues, friends, couples, etc.). We calibrated this force using experimental data, in order to simulate emergency evacuations. We observe that the evacuation time is consi-derably worsened when attractive feelings are taken into account. Therefore, we conclude that this kind of collective behavior should be included in pedestrian dynamics models.

Keywords

• emergency evacuation
• social force model (sfm)
• social groups