A better simulation algorithm for civil aircraft emergency evacuation based on cellular automata(CA) with individual characteristics of passengers considered

Aim. The introduction of the full paper reviews a number of papers in the open literature and then proposes what we believe to be a better algorithm, which has a microcosmic discrete evacuation model based on CA and which is explained in sections 1, 2 and 3. The core of section 2 is that it discusses individual passenger's knowledge of the airplane, his realization of the emergency development, and the repulsive influence between passengers. The core of section 3 consists of: (1) each passenger's orientation choice; (2) each passenger's velocity calculation; (3) lastly but most importantly "information spread" update strategy, which is very much different from past ones. Finally, for comparing the proposed algorithm with traditional CA models, we give a numerical simulation example. The results, presented in Table 2 and Fig.9, demonstrate preliminarily that the effectiveness and accuracy of our algorithm as applied to airplane are better than those of traditional CA models.