IMO MSC.1/Circ.1533

Revised Guidelines on Evacuation Analysis for New and Existing Passenger Ships (IMO MSC.1/Circ.1533, 6 June 2016, Annex 3, Appendix 2 (Guidance on validation/verification of evacuation simulation tools))

Reference: International Maritime Organization (2016). Revised guidelines on evacuation analysis for new and existing passenger ships. MSC.1/Circ.1533, 6 June 2016. https://edocs.imo.org/Final%20Documents/English/MSC.1-CIRC.1533%20(E).docx (Page numbers are the printed page numbers of Annex 3 (“Annex 3, page n”). Tests are cited by test number and paragraph of Appendix 2.)

Verification only; no validation comparisons have been run (#165).

Component testing (Tests 1-7)

Test	Title	Status	Page
IMO 1	Maintaining a set walking speed in a corridor	PASS	Open test page
IMO 2	Maintaining a set walking speed up a staircase	PASS	Open test page
IMO 3	Maintaining a set walking speed down a staircase	PASS	Open test page
IMO 4	Exit flow rate	PASS	Open test page
IMO 5	Response duration	PASS	Open test page
IMO 6	Rounding corners	PASS	Open test page
IMO 7	Assignment of population demographics	PASS	Open test page

Qualitative verification (Tests 8-12)

Test	Title	Status	Page
IMO 8	Counterflow: two rooms connected by a corridor	PASS	Open test page
IMO 9	Exit flow: crowd dissipation from a large public room	PASS	Open test page
IMO 10	Exit route allocation	PASS	Open test page
IMO 11	Staircase	PENDING	Open test page
IMO 12	Flow-density relation	PENDING	Open test page