In a pioneering work in Nature journal, a counter-intuitive prediction that escape rates of
people under panic conditions will be enhanced if an obstacle such as a column or a barrier …

We present an experimental study of a flock passing through a narrow door. Video
monitoring of daily routines in a farm has enabled us to collect a sizable amount of data. By …

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 …

We report experimental measurements obtained during the evacuation of 180 soldiers
through a narrow door. Several conditions are analyzed in the evacuation drills, such as the …

A cellular automaton (CA) model with a finer discretization of space is proposed to simulate
a non-emergency evacuation process in a room with an obstacle. During the evacuation …

In this paper we are concerned with the simulation of crowds in built environments, where
obstacles play a role in the dynamics and in the interactions among pedestrians. First of all …

Passenger evacuation in a metro tunnel is affected by distinct factors in the environment;
thus, it is a huge challenge for both designers and managers throughout the metro system's …

Academic studies have shown that obstacles at the exit can improve evacuation efficiency,
managers are skeptical of this strategy due to the effort and complexity required to …

In emergencies, evacuations move pedestrians to safety. Extensive research has
investigated strategies that can improve evacuation efficiency of pedestrian crowds in …

One of the key problems for crowd management is to improve the evacuation efficiency of
pedestrians. In this paper, we study pedestrian evacuation from a single exit room based on …