PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT ANALYSIS IN NEW LECTURE HALL COMPLEX IIT ROORKEE

Abstract

Pedestrian movement analysis plays an important role in designing of many facilities of wide range from commercial hub or a normal residential building to some transportation infrastructure. The focus of this study is to study the behavior of pedestrian inside a building during emergency situation by analyzing the various aspects such as velocity, flow, density etc. Ultimate goal here is to find out the best possible route for everyone to exit the building through emergency door and main entry gate during emergency situations with the help of various simulations and their comparison. For the simulation generation there are many tools but here in this study they are generated with Jupedsim which is open source software. Analysis and comparison of these simulations is done with the help of Jupyterlab. The study shows that the velocity of pedestrians is almost constant at the main exit doors while it shows the decreasing trend at the door of lecture hall whereas the density at the lecture hall door is much higher as compared to the density at main exit. The geometry makes a significant impact on the evacuation time as the congestions were observed around the corners near to the exit doors. The evacuation time is proportional to the number of pedestrians inside the facility and it keeps on increasing if number of pedestrian increases. Evacuation time also depends on the distribution of pedestrians inside the building and it can vary according to the presence of pedestrians near or away from the main exit