The frequency and intensity of both human-made and natural disasters are predicted to increase, and hospitals play a critically important role in reducing injury and mortality rates …
In the event of a fire emergency in the built environment, occupants face a range of evacuation decisions, including the choice of exits. An important question from the …
Human crowds provide paradigmatic examples of collective behavior emerging through self- organization. Understanding their dynamics is crucial to help manage mass events and daily …
Emergency evacuation is viewed as a common strategy adopted during the disaster preparedness stage of evacuation to ensure the safety of potentially affected populations. In …
Following the review of the experimental methods and top emerging topics, here, studies using the field data collection methods of pedestrian dynamics (April 2017-July 2019) are …
The development of technologies for reliable tracking of pedestrian trajectories in public spaces has recently enabled collecting large data sets and real-time information about the …
M Fu, R Liu, Y Zhang - Safety science, 2021 - Elsevier
People make risky decisions during fire evacuations such as moving through smoke. However, the reasons behind such risk-taking decisions have not been investigated in …
The presence of social groups in pedestrian crowds can have a substantial effect on the overall evacuation process. However, crowds are mostly simplified as a collection of …
This work is a systematic review of optimisation methods for pedestrian evacuations. The focus is on interventional approaches that seek to improve evacuation efficiency rather than …