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How to guide emergency evacuations on cruise ships? : modelling with optimization and simulation methodology

Luo, Meiqi
Master thesis
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2019
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Abstract
In recent years, the number of cruising tourists has been growing rapidly, but some serious

cruise ship accidents have also aroused safety concerns of the public on travelling with

cruise ships. However, the fixed emergency evacuation routes that are suggested in a

boarding drill or pasted behind a cabin door is inapplicable in a real emergency because of

ignoring the uncertain influence of the hazards. The existing research about emergency

evacuation on vessels is rare, and how to guide the evacuees under emergency situations is

also seldom mentioned. Moreover, modelling the evacuation on ships also needs to

consider unique features of ships, such as unstable conditions during emergencies,

including shaking, heeling and sinking, and the confined steel environment on ships, where

internal data communication is totally dependent on cables.

In this thesis, an implementable evacuation guiding model is proposed. In the proposed

model, differentiated evacuation routes are suggested to evacuees with consideration of

different movability and walking speed of them. In addition, the guiding of evacuees is

also realizable in the proposed model, with the cutting-edge sensor mesh technology

developed by ScanReach, with which the wireless data transfer in confined steel

environments is feasible. The proposed model is simulated in a framework of rolling

horizon, updating the dynamics of an emergency evacuation by continuously gaining the

latest information of hazard situation and evacuees movements.

Keywords: evacuation, guide, cruise, vessel, ship, fire, hazard, uncertainty, rolling horizon.

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