With the increasing of risk potential in crowded places, evacuation management becomes
practically important to ensure the safety of crowds. The studies of crowd evacuation in …

This paper presents a survey and critical analysis of the mathematical literature on modeling
and simulation of human crowds taking into account behavioral dynamics. The main focus is …

Given the importance of pedestrian flow simulation in reproducing pedestrian flows and
optimizing pedestrian facilities, it is crucial to accurately simulate macroscopic pedestrian …

Traditional methods of crowd evacuation simulation mainly focus on improving crowd
evacuation efficiency while many assumptions reduce the visual realism of crowd …

Every year, a considerably large number of disasters occur as a result of natural events or
human faults. In order to decrease the damage and casualties associated with each …

Pedestrian dynamics is an interdisciplinary field of research. Psychologists, sociologists,
traffic engineers, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists all strive to understand …

Visual recognition of crowd dynamics has had a huge impact on several applications
including surveillance, situation awareness, homeland security and intelligent environments …

Traditional methods of crowd evacuation simulation reduce the visual realism of crowd
motion modeling due to hypothetical scenarios and rules. Data-driven methods are an …

Crowd evacuation in emergencies may lead to fatalities if the evacuation plans were not
tested and evaluated. Traditionally, evacuation drills have been, and still are, being used to …

The formulation of pedestrian floor field cellular automaton models is generally based on
hypothetical assumptions to represent reality. This paper proposes a novel methodology to …