%0 Journal Article
%T Uncommon exit arrangement effects in airplane emergency evacuation
%A E P¨¦rez
%A JM Hedo
%A R Mart¨ªnez-Val
%J Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
%@ 2041-3025
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0954410017714007
%X This paper presents the effects of uncommon exit size and location arrangement in the emergency evacuation of transport airplanes. The analysis is carried out by means of an agent-based computer model conceived to simulate the evacuation of narrow-body aircraft as required in the certification process, as well as for design purposes. The simulation model provides full evacuation data of all occupants: escape route followed, distance to exit, time to reach the ground, etc., as well as those of the whole cabin: exit utilization patterns, evacuation histograms, chronolines and total evacuation time. The present research concentrates on the effect of uncommon exit size and location arrangements, such as large longitudinal shifting and/or suppression of some of the exits in the evacuation performance
%K Aircraft certification
%K airplane safety
%K emergency evacuation
%K evacuation simulation
%K passenger features
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0954410017714007