The application of ant colony algorithm in emergency rescue with GIS

Abstract

© 2015 IEEE. Under the indoor building environment, when the fires and other accidents occur, how to effectively organize the masses evacuation and fire rescue, is closely related to the safety of people's lives and property and has become a critical problem of public concern. This paper presents an improved ant colony algorithm (ACO) to solve the problem of how to optimize the evacuation route and rescue route when an accident occurs. According to the key factors affecting people emergency evacuation, such as indoor building environment, fire and its combustion products, problem of path's optimal selection, etc., we propose an emergency evacuation model, based on the model it can give an optimal evacuation route for the mass and an optimal rescue route for the firefighters. We also analyzes the search results, it shows that the search results is robust and reasonable.