Evacuation leaders and/or equipment provide route and exit information for people and
guide them to the expected destinations, which could make crowd evacuation more efficient …

The challenge of controlling crowd movement at large events expands not only to the realm
of emergency evacuations but also to improving non-critical conditions related to operational …

Crowd and evacuation management have been active areas of research and study in the
recent past. Various developments continue to take place in the process of efficient …

The congregation of crowd undoubtedly constitutes an important risk factor, which may
endanger the safety of the gathered people. The solution reported against this significant …

Guidance is an efficient crowd management measure used to save lives in emergencies
because it can reduce the disorientation of pedestrians. This study investigates an optimal …

A critical aspect of crowds' evacuation processes is the dynamism of individual decision
making. Identifying optimal strategies at an individual level may improve both evacuation …

Small groups are a derivative of multiple social structures and relationships. Researchers
have found that in natural disasters or other emergencies, people often escape as a social …

In the case of emergency situations, robotic systems can play a key role and save human
lives in recovery and evacuation operations. To realize such a potential, we have to address …

Building emergency evacuation has long been recognized as an important issue, and crowd
guidance is a key to improve egress efficiency and occupant survivability. Most existing …

A methodology for optimizing variable pedestrian evacuation guidance in buildings with
convex polygonal interior spaces is proposed. The optimization of variable guidance is a bi …