The most crucial aspect of a building's safety in the face of fire is the possibility of safe
escape. An important precondition is that its fire safety facilities enable independent and …

Human behavior is fundamental to human safety and the outcomes of building emergencies.
It is correlated with social environments, building environments and emergency situations …

In the event of a fire emergency in the built environment, occupants face a range of
evacuation decisions, including the choice of exits. An important question from the …

The application of agent-based modelling (ABM) to simulating dynamics within geographical
systems has seen a considerable increase over the last decade. ABM allows the …

This paper presents a crowd evacuation simulation approach that is based on navigation
knowledge and two-layer control mechanism. In this approach, using the multi-population …

As a kind of large volume underground vehicles, the subway greatly relieves the traffic
pressure of the city. However, the main defect is a closed space can easily lead to high …

The building environment and evacuation behavior are decisive factors for building
evacuation performance. Shifting toward the use of agent-based models, many current …

Abstract Knowledge on human behaviour in emergency is crucial to increase the safety of
buildings and transportation systems. Decision making during evacuations implies different …

Findings in earlier studies on fire evacuation and way finding suggest that building features
have influence on evacuation behaviour. For example, way finding is believed to be strongly …

Evacuation models can adopt different approaches for the simulation of human behaviour in
fire. This paper provides an overview of the most commonly used modelling methods to …