THE SAFEGUARD VALIDATION DATA-SETS [3 December 2012]

As part of the EU FP7 SAFEGUARD  project (contract 218493), a series of five semi-unannounced full-scale assembly trials were conducted at sea on three different types of passenger vessel.  From these trials five passenger response time data-sets were collected and two full-scale validation data-sets.  The two SAFEGUARD Validation Data-Sets (SGVDS) were generated from assembly trials conducted on a large RO-PAX ferry (RP1) operated by Color Line and a Cruise Ship (CS) operated by Royal Caribbean International – SGVDS1 and SGVDS2 respectively.   

All the information required to specify SGVDS1 and SGVDS2 and the recommended procedures to follow to analyse the data-sets can be downloaded from this website.

All members of the evacuation modelling community are invited to make use of both SGVDS1 and SGVDS2 to evaluate evacuation modelling tools.  By making use of this material you agree to abide by the following usage terms and conditions:

• Whenever work is published (typically, but not exclusively, in academic journals, conference proceedings and reports), which is based in-part or wholly on SGVDS1 or SGVDS2 the following citations to the reference material must be made:
  • Galea, E.R., Deere, S., Brown, R.,Filippidis, L., Two Evacuation Model Validation Data-sets for Large Passenger Ships, SNAME (The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers) Journal of Ship Research, Vol 57, number 3, pp155-170, Sept 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/JOSR.57.3.120037
  • Brown, R., Galea, E.R., Deere, S.J., Filippidis, L., Passenger Response Time Data-sets for Large Passenger Ferries and Cruise Ships Derived from Sea Trials, Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, Vol 155, Part A1, pp 33-48, 2013.
  • Deere, S.J., Galea, E.R., Filippidis, L., Brown, R., Data Collection Methodologies Used in the SAFEGUARD Project to Collect Human Factors Data, RINA SAFEGUARD Passenger Evacuation Seminar 30 November 2012, ISBN No: 978-1-909024-08-3.
  • https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/218493
    • In addition, the following references to IMO INF papers concerning the data sets can also be made:
      • The SAFEGUARD Validation Data-Set and Recommendations to IMO to Update MSC Circ. 1238. IMO Committee on Fire Protection, 56th Session, FP56/INF.13, 14 November 2012.
      • Response Time Data for Large Passenger Ferries and Cruise Ships. IMO Committee on Fire Protection, 56th Session, FP56/INF.12, 14 November 2012.,
• When the above noted work is published or reported in the public domain, an electronic copy of the publication should be forwarded to e.r.galea@gre.ac.uk within one month of it appearing in the public domain. Where available a DOI for the publication should also be provided.  
• The provided publications will be cited on the VALIDATION web page, together with the DOI of the publication.  
• If the software tool  FSEG_VALIDATION_ASSESSOR is used to assess the degree of agreement with the validation data-set the following citation must be made in any work that is published (typically, but not exclusively, in academic journals, conference proceedings and reports) utilising the assessment:
  • Haasanen, S.,  Galea, E.R., and Deere, S., Computer Software, FSEG_VALIDATION_ASSESSOR,  Available from http://fseg.gre.ac.uk/validation/introduction