Short-term passenger flow prediction in urban rail transit plays an important role because it
in-forms decision-making on operation scheduling. However, passenger flow prediction is …

Modern multifloor hybrid (MFH) buildings usually have complex structures and intense
closeness, significantly increasing difficulties for the safe evacuation of people in the event …

One of the important Internet-of-Things applications is to use image and video to realize
automatic people monitoring, surveillance, tracking, and reidentification (Re-ID). Despite …

Crowd behavior analysis is an important research topic in the field of video surveillance and
public safety management. Crowd emotion has a strong relation with the crowd behavior …

Emergency signage systems provide effective route guidance and evacuation information
for pedestrians in case of emergencies such as fire, blackout, and explosion. This paper …

A mobile edge computing (MEC) paradgim is evolving as an increasingly popular means for
developing and deploying smart-city-oriented applications. MEC servers can receive a great …

Machine learning models have been widely adopted for passenger flow prediction in urban
metros; however, the authors find machine learning models may underperform under …

Human evacuation during an emergency in high-rise buildings is a life-risking task and has
to be performed in the least possible time. With the advancements in robotics, deploying …

Evacuation assistants and their guiding strategies play an important role in the multi-exits
pedestrian evacuation. To investigate the effects of guiding strategies on evacuation …

Airports, shopping malls, stadiums, and large venues in general, can become congested
and chaotic at peak times or in emergency situations. Linear Model Predictive Control (MPC) …