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 …

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 …

Due to the constraints of various factors influencing human evacuation on board, it remains
a challenging problem to accurately quantify the impact of these factors on the evacuation …

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 …

During ship emergencies, a reliable and efficient evacuation system is able to guide
passengers to the appropriate muster stations as quickly as possible. The majority of the …

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

A significant number of injuries and fatalities occur annually due to fire in buildings. The
proactive use of fire safety measures at the design stage can potentially lead to a …

Rapid urbanization has made many cities in China enter an era that increment and stock
develop in parallel. Urban central area presents the characteristics of complex spatial …

A recent challenge in life safety is to improve evacuee's performance using technology. Here
we propose an intelligent evacuation guiding system for complex buildings. It uses …

As an emerging pollutant, per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous in
water and pose a great risk to humans. Adsorption technology is a promising technology for …