Simulation of evacuation process in high-rise buildings and structures with using passenger elevators

. The number of multi-storey buildings and structures increases every year. Now there is an improving tendency of elderly people who remains be able to work even in old age. The issue of evacuation people with reduced mobility is especially acute. In high-rise buildings, evacuation paths are very long, which makes the evacuation process for these groups not only difficult and dangerous, but also physically impossible. At the same time, most problems with using elevators as the main evacuation path have been almost solved. The article’s purpose is to simulate the evacuation process from a high-rise building with using elevators as one of the main path. Tasks: 1) determine the evacuation time dependence on the movement parameters of people different mobility groups; 2) compare the evacuation time on the staircase and through the elevators.