Recent reports of emergency aircraft evacuations have highlighted an increasing tendency amongst evacuees to ignore clear safety warnings and to collect and carry personal items of baggage during egress. However, relatively little work has so far been done on quantifying the impact of such behaviour on the evacuation process. In this paper, we report the results of validated simulation experiments (using the Boeing 777 wide-body aircraft), which confirm that even a relatively low level of baggage collection can significantly delay evacuation. Our platform provides one possible framework for the investigation of processes and mitigation tactics to minimise the impact of baggage collection behaviour in future.

翻译：近期关于紧急飞机疏散的报告突显了撤离者忽视明确安全警告并在疏散过程中提取并携带个人行李物品的日益增长的趋势。然而，迄今关于此类行为对疏散过程影响的量化研究相对较少。本文报告了使用波音777宽体飞机进行的验证性模拟实验结果，该结果证实即使较低水平的行李提取行为也会显著延迟疏散。我们的平台为研究相关过程及缓解策略提供了一种可能的框架，以最大限度地减少未来行李提取行为的影响。