How does evacuation behaviour of crowds vary based on the level of perceived urgency?
This question was investigated using two simulated experiments of crowd evacuations …

Modern multifloor hybrid (MFH) buildings usually have complex structures and intense
closeness, significantly increasing difficulties for the safe evacuation of people in the event …

Earthquake risk assessment at urban scale is actually based on site hazard, buildings
vulnerability and exposition, but does not consider human behaviours during both the event …

Introduction: The flow of pedestrians through narrow doorways is one of the most common
features of crowd motions and evacuations. It is particularly an important aspect of …

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 …

This paper assesses how exit choice behavior influences the total egress behavior of a
crowd during building evacuation. A discrete choice model is proposed to represent …

Metro systems are playing an essential role in transiting large passenger flows in
metropolitan areas. Since commuting with Metro systems is beneficial from cost and time …

This paper investigates pedestrian crowd tactical‐level decision making during emergency
evacuations. Of particular interest is crowd exit‐choice behaviour. Two sources of stated …

A recent challenge in life safety is to improve evacuee's performance using technology. Here
we propose an intelligent evacuation guiding system for complex buildings. It uses …

In an indoor evacuation scenario, an early decision to be made by each occupant is when to
initiate the (decisive) evacuation movement, a decision that determines the pre-evacuation …