This paper provides a critical review on the state-of-the-art pedestrian and evacuation
dynamics so as to comprehensively comprehend the motion behaviors of pedestrians from …

During ship emergencies, a reliable and efficient evacuation system is able to guide
passengers to the appropriate muster stations as quickly as possible. The majority of the …

The reasonable setting of guides can directly improve the evacuation capacity in the subway
station. The important role of guide assignment scheme and evacuation path planning of …

Europe has been subject to a significant increase in terrorist acts and their impact in recent
years. In this context, real-world events pointed out how the pedestrians' safety is …

An extended guided crowd dynamics model is proposed to investigate the guide
optimization during emergency evacuation. The initial assignment scheme for guides based …

Obstacle avoidance behavior, as an important part of pedestrian evacuation, is of great
significance to the study of evacuation efficiency. This paper investigates the definitions of …

The adoption of passenger leaders could make crowd evacuation in urban railway transit
(URT) stations more efficient. The number, location, and the actions of the leaders are the …

Major accidents, like toxic gas releases, fires and explosions, may influence a large area.
And thus, evacuation is a necessary public protection measure to mitigate the health …

Most modern agent-based evacuation models involve interactions between evacuees.
However, the assumed reasons for interactions and portrayal of them may be overly simple …

The simulation of pedestrian evacuation in emergency is of great significance to the public
facilities design and emergency plan implementation. For study pedestrian behaviors under …