EXIT89: High-Rise Evacuation Model - Recent Enhancements and Example Applications.
EXIT89: High-Rise Evacuation Model - Recent
Enhancements and Example Applications.
(315 K)
Fahy, R. F.
Interscience Communications Ltd.; National Institute of
Standards and Technology; Building Research
Establishment; and Society of Fire Protection Engineers;
Swedish National Testing and Research Institute.
Interflam '96. International Interflam Conference, 7th
Proceedings. March 26-28, 1996, Cambridge, England,
Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England,
Franks, C. A.; Grayson, S., Editor(s)(s), 1001-1005 pp,
1996.
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Keywords:
fire safety; high rise buildings; evacuation; people
movement; fire models; smoke movement; predictive
models; evacuation time; handicapped; occupants
Abstract:
EXIT89 was designed to model the evacuation of a large
building while tracking the travel paths of each
individual occupant. In combination with a fire and
smoke movement model, EXIT89 can be used to predict the
effects of fire spread on evacuation. Used alone, it
can provide a best-case evacuation time estimate. The
model has been enhanced to allow the user to specify
occupants' travel paths, to delay the beginning of
evacuation by location or randomly among all occupants
and to simulate the presence of disabled occupants. A
beta test version of the model will be distributed by
the end of 1995 and plans are to include this model in a
future version of HAZARD I. This paper describes recent
enhancements in more detail and includes examples that
demonstrate the use of those new features.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899