Research issues in agent-based simulation for pedestrians evacuation

N Siyam, O Alqaryouti, S Abdallah - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowd evacuation in emergencies may lead to fatalities if the evacuation plans were not
tested and evaluated. Traditionally, evacuation drills have been, and still are, being used to …

Simulation-based passenger evacuation optimization in metro stations considering multi-objectives

K Guo, L Zhang - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Evacuation is critical for safety management due to the highly overcrowded passengers in
the metro stations. A simulation-based approach integrating Random Forest (RF) and Non …

Optimising crowd evacuations: Mathematical, architectural and behavioural approaches

M Haghani - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Physics inspired methods for crowd video surveillance and analysis: a survey

X Zhang, Q Yu, H Yu - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowd analysis is very important for human behavior analysis, safety science, computational
simulation, and computer vision applications. One of the most popular applications is video …

[HTML][HTML] Agent-based models of social behaviour and communication in evacuations: A systematic review

A Templeton, H Xie, S Gwynne, A Hunt, P Thompson… - Safety Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Most modern agent-based evacuation models involve interactions between evacuees.
However, the assumed reasons for interactions and portrayal of them may be overly simple …

[HTML][HTML] System Identification for the design of behavioral controllers in crowd evacuations

MA Lopez-Carmona - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Behavioral modification using active instructions is a promising interventional method to
optimize crowd evacuations. However, existing research efforts have been more focused on …

Increasing awareness in classroom evacuation situations using agent-based modeling

C Delcea, LA Cotfas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Educational properties have recorded an average of 4980 structure fires between 2011 and
2015 according to US National Fire Protection Association. It has been determined that four …

Cellular automaton model for social forces interaction in building evacuation for sustainable society

Y Chen, C Wang, H Li, JBH Yap, R Tang… - Sustainable cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A basic cellular automaton model does not consider social forces interaction in building
evacuation thus could not explain complex crowd evacuation processes. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Linear and nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) for regulating pedestrian flows with discrete speed instructions

MA Lopez-Carmona, AP Garcia - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2023 - Elsevier
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) …

Psychological impatience in pedestrian evacuation: modelling, simulations and experiments

W Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Ma, EWM Lee, M Shi - Physica A: Statistical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The study of psychological impatience has provided new insights into pedestrian behaviour
and evacuation dynamics. However, previous works have mostly focused on investigating …