Agent-Based Model of Crowd Dynamics During Disaster Evacuation
Pittsburgh PNC Baseball Stadium

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Java applet Stadium egress model ver 21 (December 08, 2006)

 

Download

Windows Stadium21 exe .zip

Mac Stadium21.macosx.zip

Linux Stadium21.linux.zip

 

Movies

Quicktime (9.6 mb)
3D rendering of crowd without stadium
Quicktime (6 mb)
3D flyover of stadium - low quality. z-ordering artifacts in baseball field and seats.
Quicktime (9 mb)
3D flyover of stadium - higher quality , z-ordering issues resolved
AVI (21 mb)
3D flyover of stadium - volumetric lighting.
AVI (2 mb)
Close up of simulated bomb explosion
AVI (16 mb)
3D stadium with bomb explosion in left field
Quicktime (7mb)
crowd of 1000 agents with bomb explosion
   

 

Project Code Library

 


Stadium agent based model source (requires Processing v116 or above)
version 021 December 8, 2006

 

CC-GNU LGPL
This software is licensed under the CC-GNU LGPL.

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Stadium Selection

GoogleEarth Survey .kmz file (Requires GoogleEarth to be installed)

Powerpoint presentation of Stadium Selection

Include this file in the same directory as the powerpoint
Video flyover in .avi format. 176 Mb. poorer quality than .wmv file but it is embeddable into Powerpoint.

3D views of PNC for use in model






Images

News items

  • Live Evacuation Simulation: (Pittsburgh Tribune:) The emergency scenario involved a bomb exploding in the left-field box seats and subsequent disaster scenes that the explosion triggered inside and outside the ballpark, including a carjacked ambulance attempting to enter the ballpark. The washdown stations were used to hose down several hundred “victims” covered with biochemical residue. $750K live mock excercise paid for with DHS grant. Mentions Michael Forgy, the branch chief for exercise of the Department of Homeland Security and Ray DeMichiei, deputy director of Pittsburgh's Emergency Management Agency.
  • Is Downtown Prepared for Terrorism (WPXI)
  • Venue Security

 

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