Abstract
Ship accidents worldwide continue to rise, resulting in an increasing number of casualties. For the safety of passengers on ships, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulates standards for evacuation analysis through SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.) Until now, the evacuation time was calculated using a simplified evacuation analysis that assumes the movement of a passenger as a flow of fluid as regulated by IMO. However, according to the revised IMO regulations in 2016, it is recommended to perform an advanced evacuation analysis method that reflects the characteristics of each passenger similar to the actual situation and calculates the passenger evacuation time through this. Therefore, a passenger behaviour model was proposed for an advanced evacuation analysis in this study. It was developed to make it easy to add, remove, and modify various characteristics of passengers by constructing a multi-channel behaviour model. The characteristics of passengers generally include individual characteristics for escaping the shortest distance to a destination and group characteristics in consideration of surrounding people. Furthermore, if the ship is damaged, it may be flooded and change attitude. Therefore, it was added as one channel in the passenger behaviour model. In this study, the effectiveness of the proposed model was evaluated by applying it to various scenarios according to the IMO regulations and examples similar to the actual accident.