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Risk-based models for emergency shelter and exit design in buildings

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Mathematical models are presented that support the design of shelters and exits in buildings, along with hallway fortification strategies and associated evacuation paths. The objective of these models is to optimally protect building users and prevent casualties during emergencies by minimizing the risk to which evacuees are exposed during evacuation and after reaching their destinations. The models involve stochastic programming and robust optimization concepts under both user equilibrium (selfish) and system optimal (altruistic) conditions. These approaches are compared in a case study involving a single-story building. A multi-hazard approach is utilized in which the performance of a design is tested given various possible future emergency scenarios.

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This work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the United States Department of Transportation through the Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center. This support is gratefully acknowledged, but implies no endorsement of the findings.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1173, Glenn Martin Hall, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Reza Faturechi, Elise Miller-Hooks & Lei Feng

  2. Department of Structural Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Shabtai Isaac

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Faturechi, R., Isaac, S., Miller-Hooks, E. et al. Risk-based models for emergency shelter and exit design in buildings. Ann Oper Res 262, 185–212 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-016-2223-3

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