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Article

Dynamic Evacuation Planning on Cruise Ships Based on an Improved Ant Colony System (IACS)

by
Linfan Liu
,
Huajun Zhang
*,
Jupeng Xie
and
Qin Zhao
School of Automotion, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(2), 220; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020220
Submission received: 18 January 2021 / Revised: 10 February 2021 / Accepted: 17 February 2021 / Published: 19 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Maritime Safety)
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Abstract

The emergency evacuation route planning of cruise ships directly affects the safety of all crew members and passengers during emergencies. Research on the planning of emergency evacuation routes for cruise ships is a frontier subject of maritime safety. This study proposes an improved ant colony system (IACS) to solve the evacuation route planning of crowds on cruise ships. The IACS, which is different from common single-path ant colony system (ACS) evacuation algorithms, is used to solve the multipath planning problem of crowd evacuation from cruise ships by considering crowd density and speed in the model. An increasing flow method is introduced into the IACS to improve the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. Numerical experiments show that this method meets the requirements of evacuation analysis guidelines for new and existing passenger ships (MSC.1/Circ.1533)and can effectively and efficiently plan the emergency evacuation path for cruise ship crowd.
Keywords: route planning; cruise ship; IACS; emergency evacuation route planning; cruise ship; IACS; emergency evacuation

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Liu, L.; Zhang, H.; Xie, J.; Zhao, Q. Dynamic Evacuation Planning on Cruise Ships Based on an Improved Ant Colony System (IACS). J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9, 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020220

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Liu L, Zhang H, Xie J, Zhao Q. Dynamic Evacuation Planning on Cruise Ships Based on an Improved Ant Colony System (IACS). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2021; 9(2):220. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020220

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Liu, Linfan, Huajun Zhang, Jupeng Xie, and Qin Zhao. 2021. "Dynamic Evacuation Planning on Cruise Ships Based on an Improved Ant Colony System (IACS)" Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9, no. 2: 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020220

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Liu, L., Zhang, H., Xie, J., & Zhao, Q. (2021). Dynamic Evacuation Planning on Cruise Ships Based on an Improved Ant Colony System (IACS). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(2), 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9020220

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