The video below demonstrates a first multi-agent traffic simulation by GIScience Research Group, University of Heidelberg for the scenario of an emergency indoor evacuation. The required files (network, agents etc.) are automatically generated from volunteered geographic information (VGI) of OpenStreetMap (OSM). The data in OSM is mapped according to the IndoorOSM mapping proposal (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IndoorOSM).

The use case building consists of four floors with three bigger (lecture) rooms and several offices (University of Heidelberg, Department of Geography). The scenario assumes that the lecture rooms and offices are occupied, with 313 persons. All agents are routed to one single building exit, thus the scenario describes a organized and structured evacuation. 100 simulation iterations have been conducted, whereby this video features iterations zero, 50 and 100.

As a simulation framework MATSim (http://www.matsim.org) is utilized. The application demonstrates the potential for IndoorOSM.