Toward automatic variations of evacuation simulations to enhance event safety

Abstract

Mass gatherings pose significant challenges for organizers and safety authorities, as seen in previous crowd disasters. Effective planning and rapid adaptation in the event of danger are crucial to ensuring public safety. Our Resilience & Event Management System (REMSY) aims to solve a multitude of challenges surrounding event management but particularly addresses evacuation by enabling stakeholders to simulate and explore various “what-if” scenarios. Through an intuitive interface, planners can easily create and run multiple varied simulations to understand how crowd dynamics may evolve in diverging conditions. To enable data-driven decisions and optimize event planning, they are provided with various key safety indicators. A case study from Freiburg, Germany, will demonstrate the real-world applicability and value of the system to stakeholders.