A Cellular Automata Model to Verify Evacuation Plan

In order to verify validity of evacuation plan, a Cellular Automata (CA) model is proposed in the paper. In the model, pedestrians move along with planning routes gained from optimization algorithm, the routes are defined by a series of sub-targets. Then, the simulation results can be used to evaluate the efficiency of evacuation plan. A "distance map" concept is introduced to help in the simulation approach, by which various phenomena including obstacle avoiding etc. are handled efficiently. Testing results show that the new model proposed is both efficient and potential.