Passenger evacuation seminar
A passenger ship evacuation seminar organised by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects was held on 30 November 2012 and RINA headquarters in London.
It presented the work of the EU-funded SAFEGUARD project, which has undertaken a series of full-scale ship passenger evacuation trials to gather data for calibration and validation of ship based evacuation simulation models.
SAFEGUARD brings together nine international companies and research institutes based in the UK, France, Canada, Norway and Greece to perform a series of full scale ship passenger evacuation trials to gather data for calibration and validation of ship based evacuation simulation models.
Data collected from real sea trails on three passenger ships and five semi-unannounced passenger evacuation assemblies will be used by the SAFEGUARD partners to create a large data base of passenger response times and assembly times of a sufficient depth and detail to permit simulation model calibration, verification and validation. It is also hoped that this data will serve as the basis for improved evacuation analysis protocols beyond the International Maritime Organisations (IMO) MSC circular 1238.
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