The role of data-driven approaches in studies of crowd behaviour has received an
unprecedented recognition in recent years. As a result, the size of the empirical crowd …

Disasters and emergencies frequently happen, and some of them require population
evacuation. Children can be severely affected during evacuations due to their lower …

Evacuation models are key tools to assess the fire safety of complex buildings. Those tools
and their results rely on the input values selected by users based on existing datasets and …

Nowadays, with population growth and urban development, there is a demand for larger
public buildings and facilities, and congestion at the bottleneck of the building may pose a …

The pedestrian flow capacity of building exits has always been a focus of research in
evacuation field. This paper focuses on the congestion mechanism of pedestrian flow at exit …

The most likely responses of humans in emergency escape scenarios is not perfectly
understood and many of the current behavioural assumptions are speculative. Because of …

Child behavior during evacuation, as a critical problem that has not been fully explored and
understood, is investigated in this paper, through conducting a group of experiments and …

Children are a vulnerable group in society and less is known about their characteristics
during evacuation than that of adults. This may lead to fire safety design of child centric …

This study investigates the behavioral patterns of children during emergency evacuations
through a dual approach comprising controlled experimental evacuations within a …

Accurate evaluation of urban emergency shelters is key to improving disaster response
capacity and government emergency management ability, especially in mountainous areas …