Test 9: Exit flow: crowd dissipation from a large public room

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Test 9: Exit flow: crowd dissipation from a large public room

15 Public room with four exits and 1,000 persons (see figure 3) uniformly distributed in the room. Persons leave via the nearest exits. Choose a panel consisting of males 30-50 years old from table 3.4 in the appendix to the Guidelines for the advanced evacuation analysis of new and existing ships with instant response time and distribute the walking speeds over a population of 1,000 persons.

Step 1: Record the time the last person leaves the room.

Step 2: Close doors 1 and 2 and repeat step 1.

The expected result is an approximate doubling of the time to empty the room.

Exit flow from a large public room

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