Live tests of emergency evacuation of transport aircraft are becoming increasingly expensive as the planes grow to a size seating hundreds of passengers. Repeated tests, to cope with random variations, increase these costs, as well as risks of injuries to participants. A method of simulating such repeated tests, by use of computer models based on statistics from measured components of the escape path, has been developed. The models utilize GPSS, a computer programming language, to represent various features of the escape process: passenger mix, seating and exit configuration, door-opening delay, time on the escape slide, and slide capacity. (Author)
GPSS/360 Computer Models to Simulate Aircraft Passenger Emergency Evacuation
1972
30 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Jet transport planes , Commercial planes , Aviation safety , Evacuation , Mathematical models , Time studies , Abandonment , Queueing theory , Simulation , Survival , Random variables , GPSS(General Purpose Simulation System) , General purpose simulation system , GPSS programming language , IBM 360 computers , Boeing 720 aircraft , Computerized simulation