Crowd evacuation of a building has been studied over the last decades. In this paper, seven
methodological approaches for crowd evacuation have been identified. These approaches …

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and
models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible …

The frequency, destruction and costs of natural and human-made disasters in modern highly-
populated societies have resulted in research on emergency evacuation and wayfinding …

A bidimensional cellular automaton model is used to simulate the process of evacuation of
pedestrians in a room with fixed obstacles. A floor field is defined so that moving to a cell …

Many people die every year in emergency situations due to the absence of efficient
evacuation plans. Not having an adequate action plan implies high evacuation times that …

Recent advances in bottleneck studies have highlighted that different architectural
adjustments at the exit may reduce the probability of clogging at the exit thereby enhancing …

The problem of emergent evacuation is of obvious importance in common life. However,
many existing evacuation models are either computationally inefficient, or are missing some …

Numerical investigations of escape panic of confined pedestrians have revealed interesting
dynamical features such as pedestrian arch formation around an exit, disruptive …

In this paper, we propose a new approach for pedestrian dynamics. We call it a real-coded
cellular automata (RCA). The scheme is based on the real-coded lattice gas (RLG), which …

The phenomenon of herding is a very general feature of the collective behavior of many
species in panic conditions, including humans. It has been predicted theoretically that panic …