Empirical methods in pedestrian, crowd and evacuation dynamics: Part I. Experimental methods and emerging topics

M Haghani - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A scoping review and bibliometric analysis of methods for fire evacuation training in buildings

LW Menzemer, E Ronchi, MMV Karsten, S Gwynne… - Fire safety journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a scoping review of methods for fire evacuation training in buildings. It
adopts the PRISMA methodology (Transparent Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta …

[HTML][HTML] Consumer behaviour during crises: Preliminary research on how coronavirus has manifested consumer panic buying, herd mentality, changing discretionary …

M Loxton, R Truskett, B Scarf, L Sindone… - Journal of risk and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic spread globally from its outbreak in China in
early 2020, negatively affecting economies and industries on a global scale. In line with …

[HTML][HTML] A roadmap for the future of crowd safety research and practice: Introducing the Swiss Cheese Model of Crowd Safety and the imperative of a Vision Zero …

M Haghani, M Coughlan, B Crabb, A Dierickx… - Safety science, 2023 - Elsevier
Crowds can be subject to intrinsic and extrinsic sources of risk, and previous records have
shown that, in the absence of adequate safety measures, these sources of risk can …

Simulation-based passenger evacuation optimization in metro stations considering multi-objectives

K Guo, L Zhang - Automation in Construction, 2022 - Elsevier
Evacuation is critical for safety management due to the highly overcrowded passengers in
the metro stations. A simulation-based approach integrating Random Forest (RF) and Non …

Evacuation behaviour of crowds under high and low levels of urgency: Experiments of reaction time, exit choice and exit-choice adaptation

M Haghani, M Sarvi, Z Shahhoseini - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Inside a life-threatening crowd: Analysis of the Love Parade disaster from the perspective of eyewitnesses

A Sieben, A Seyfried - Safety science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Love Parade disaster in 2010 in Duisburg, Germany, twenty-one visitors
lost their lives and more than five hundred were injured in a very dense crowd on the route …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive cell-based evacuation systems for leader-follower crowd evacuation

MA Lopez-Carmona, AP Garcia - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Optimising crowd evacuations: Mathematical, architectural and behavioural approaches

M Haghani - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
This work is a systematic review of optimisation methods for pedestrian evacuations. The
focus is on interventional approaches that seek to improve evacuation efficiency rather than …

Modeling the dynamics of pedestrian evacuation in a complex environment

Q Liu, L Lu, Y Zhang, M Hu - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of crowd evacuation dynamics is important for the management of public safety,
and crowd evacuation dynamics models can be used to simulate the behaviors of …