Simulation of Occupant Evacuation Inside Buildings Under Integrated Environment

This paper presents an integrated simulation framework to evaluate evacuation efficiency for building plans from Computer Aided Design(CAD) drawings.Geographic Information System(GIS) based real time analysis is carried out to capture spatial information among scenario variables and thereby simulate human perceptions and interactions.Building layout and human behaviors are represented in virtual evacuation scenarios using Virtual Reality(VR) technology.The views are integrated into the framework based on Client-Server mechanism.The case study demonstrates that integrated simulation with CAD,GIS and VR views can facilitate the visualization of evacuation simulation.