On the use of network flow techniques for assigning evacuees to exits

Dressler Daniel, Groß Martin, Kappmeier Jan-Philipp, Kelter Timon, Kulbatzki Joscha, Plümpe Daniel, Schlechter Gordon, Schmidt Melanie, Skutella Martin, Temme Sylvie

Zusammenfassung

We apply network flow techniques to find good exit selections for evacuees in an emergency evacuation. More precisely, we present two algorithms for computing exit distributions using both classical flows and flows over time which are well known from combinatorial optimization. The performance of these new proposals is compared to a simple shortest path approach and to a best response dynamics approach by using a cellular automaton model.