In many countries EXODUS is now the standard evacuation analysis tool. It has been used on projects in 22 countries including London's Millennium Dome, Sydney's Olympic Stadium, and the Airbus 380 aircraft.

MaritimeEXODUS, developed for use by ship designers, won the 2001 Communications & IT in Shipping Award for 'Innovation in IT for Ship Operations'. LLoyds Register delivers its ship evacuation guidance service using MaritimeEXODUS. The software enables users to run passenger evacuation simulations on a 3D ship model, allowing them to identify potential bottlenecks early in the design process. The programme enables Lloyds Register to fulfil the requirement for the evaluation of escape routes on board ro-ro passenger vessels as specified under Regulation II-2/28-1.3 of SOLAS. The programme is equally applicable to other types of passenger vessels.

MaritimeEXODUS software works in tandem with fire and smoke spread models, enabling users to estimate the exposure of passengers and crew to smoke, heat, and narcotic and irritant gases, as well as the impact of this exposure on their ability to evacuate safely. The simulation also takes different types of passengers into account, modelling the behaviour expected of people of differing ages, genders and levels of disability among other characteristics.

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