In numerous major German cities, folk festivals, concerts, and public viewing events with thousands of visitors take place simultaneously and in close proximity to one another. The organizers' safety and evacuation concepts currently only take their own events into account. The flow of visitors from parallel events, which could collide with their own visitor flows in an emergency, has not been considered to date. A user-friendly option for simulating complex scenarios and incorporating them into the conceptual preliminary planning of events has been lacking until now.

The overarching goal of ESCAPE is to provide security authorities nationwide with a manageable simulation tool to enable analysis of the security-relevant interactions of large-scale events taking place in parallel. However, such projects are usually so large that a purely microscopic analysis is too computationally intensive. The consortium's goal is therefore to divide the simulation area in such a way that only identified critical areas, such as bottlenecks, are simulated with the microscopic model, while the remaining areas are simulated with the macroscopic model. This enables security authorities to efficiently assess large-scale events taking place in parallel.

To achieve this goal, the simulation software will be expanded so that specified areas can be simulated using the macroscopic model and it will be possible to switch between the models. In addition, automatic detection of critical areas is to be integrated. Furthermore, the visualization of the simulation results will be expanded so that the critical areas can be viewed in detail. With the help of the expanded software, two parallel events will then be simulated and the results compared with real data.



ESCAPE closes a significant gap between conventional visitor simulations and the increasing demands placed on the conceptual planning of parallel events. Security planners, event organizers, police, fire departments, and infrastructure operators receive the same information, enabling them to plan large-scale events in a targeted, fast, and efficient manner.

ESCAPE: makroskopische Simulation, die bei Engstellen in mikroskopische Analysen übergehen. Die Identifikation von neuralgischen Punkten erfolgt über die Analyse von Realdaten.