TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of Leader-Follower Behavior on Evacuation Performance
T2 - 17th annual conference of European Social Simulation Association, ESSA 2022
AU - Irnich, Jakob
AU - Wal, Natalie van der
AU - Duives, Dorine
AU - Auping, Willem
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Different leader-follower behaviors may be observed in models, such as group gathering, backtracking, and changing between groups. However, a comparison of these behaviors resulting in possible substantially different estimates of optimal evacuation procedures is lacking. Hence, we developed an agent-based model in combination with exploratory modeling to compare backtracking, group gathering, and followers changing leaders and investigate their influence on the evacuation and response time. The simulation results showed that backtracking and changing of groups increased the evacuation time. Whereby group gathering increase the response time. In addition, the combination of behaviors increases the influence on evacuation and response time. Further research needs to test these results with empirical studies and investigate the impact of other leader-follower behavior. The found insights may be utilized in evacuation research for modeling this behavior and they provide a valuable basis for designing policies in buildings with a high distribution of leader-follower groups.
AB - Different leader-follower behaviors may be observed in models, such as group gathering, backtracking, and changing between groups. However, a comparison of these behaviors resulting in possible substantially different estimates of optimal evacuation procedures is lacking. Hence, we developed an agent-based model in combination with exploratory modeling to compare backtracking, group gathering, and followers changing leaders and investigate their influence on the evacuation and response time. The simulation results showed that backtracking and changing of groups increased the evacuation time. Whereby group gathering increase the response time. In addition, the combination of behaviors increases the influence on evacuation and response time. Further research needs to test these results with empirical studies and investigate the impact of other leader-follower behavior. The found insights may be utilized in evacuation research for modeling this behavior and they provide a valuable basis for designing policies in buildings with a high distribution of leader-follower groups.
KW - Agent-based modelling
KW - EMA workbench
KW - Evacuation
KW - Leader-following behaviour
KW - Uncertainty
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85174547169&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-34920-1_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-34920-1_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85174547169
SN - 9783031349195
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Complexity
SP - 153
EP - 165
BT - Advances in Social Simulation - Proceedings of the 17th Social Simulation Conference, European Social Simulation Association
A2 - Squazzoni, Flaminio
PB - Springer
Y2 - 12 September 2022 through 16 September 2022
ER -