  This paper works on one of the most recent pedestrian crowd evacuation
models, i.e., "a simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation based on
various AI techniques", developed in late 2019. This study adds a new feature
to the developed model by proposing a new method and integrating it with the
model. This method enables the developed model to find a more appropriate
evacuation area design, among others regarding safety due to selecting the best
exit door location among many suggested locations. This method is completely
dependent on the selected model's output, i.e., the evacuation time for each
individual within the evacuation process. The new method finds an average of
the evacuees' evacuation times of each exit door location; then, based on the
average evacuation time, it decides which exit door location would be the best
exit door to be used for evacuation by the evacuees. To validate the method,
various designs for the evacuation area with various written scenarios were
used. The results showed that the model with this new method could predict a
proper exit door location among many suggested locations. Lastly, from the
results of this research using the integration of this newly proposed method, a
new capability for the selected model in terms of safety allowed the right
decision in selecting the finest design for the evacuation area among other
designs.
