ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that the potential advantages associated with the introduction of an adaptive behavioral capability within evacuation models. The implementation was shown to provide a more complex and arguably more realistic representation of this behavior than that provided by the existing model. EXODUS is a suite of software tools designed to simulate the evacuation of large numbers of people from a variety of enclosures. The spatial and temporal dimensions within buildingEXODUS are spanned by a two-dimensional spatial grid and a simulation clock. Validation information concerning the buildingEXODUS model may be found in several publications. The manner in which occupants behave in response to crowd formations is of fundamental importance to the success of an evacuation. Within the current version of buildingEXODUS, the implementation of the occupant’s ability to determine their choice of exit, “redirective” behavior and the factors highlighted above is somewhat limited.
