The GETAWAY system concept

1) The Fine Detection and Alarm System (FDAS) which monitors the evolution of the fire incident at the transportation terminal through continuous readings of temperature and smoke sensors. 

2) The Image Analysis Engine (lAE) which estimates the number of passengers in the affected areas based on footage from CCTV cameras. 

3) Evacuation Simulation Engine (ESE) which performs faster than real-time evacuation simulations based on predefined evacuation scenarios. The simulated scenarios are passed to the Decision Engine for assessment 

4) The Decision Engine (DE) which controls the data flow between the GETAWAY components. It passes environmental and crowd data to ESE to perform the evacuation simulations. It also assesses and ranks the evacuation scenarios received from ESE on the basis of a cost function. The DE User Interface (UI) will display the optimal evacuation scenario together with other important information about the Are incident. Based on this information, the Incident Manager will be able to select an evacuation scenario and activate the DSS in order to guide passengers to safety. 

5) The Dynamic Signage System (DSS) which will guide passengers to safety. 

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