@Article{cmes.2020.07530,
AUTHOR = {Roberto Bellas, Javier Martínez, Ignacio Rivera, Ramón Touza, Miguel Gómez, Rafael Carreño},
TITLE = {Analysis of Naval Ship Evacuation Using Stochastic Simulation Models and Experimental Data Sets},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {122},
YEAR = {2020},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {971--995},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v122n3/38392},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {The study of emergency evacuation in public spaces, buildings and large ships 
may present parallel characteristic in terms of complexity of the layout but there are also 
significant differences that can hindering passengers to reach muster stations or the 
lifeboats. There are many hazards on a ship that can cause an emergency evacuation, the 
most severe result in loss of lives. Providing safe and effective evacuation of passengers 
from ships in an emergency situation becomes critical. Recently, computer simulation has 
become an indispensable technology in various fields, among them, the evacuation 
models that recently evolved incorporating human behavioral factors. In this work, an 
analysis of evacuation in a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ship was conducted. Escape 
routes specified by the ship’s procedures were introduced in the model and the six 
emergency scenarios of the Naval Ship Code were simulated. The crew and embarked 
troops were introduced with their different evacuation behavior, in addition, walking 
speeds were extracted from data set collected in experiments conducted at other warships. 
From the results of the simulations, the longest time was chosen and confidence intervals 
constructed to determine the total evacuation time. Finally, results show that evacuation 
time meets regulatory requirements and the usefulness and low cost of the evacuation 
simulation for testing and refining possible ships’ layouts and emergency scenarios.},
DOI = {10.32604/cmes.2020.07530}
}