Crowd behaviour and motion: Empirical methods

M Haghani, M Sarvi - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction The safety of humans in crowded environments has been recognised as an
important and rapidly growing research area with significant implications for urban planning …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating human factors in emergency evacuation–An overview of behavioral factors and models

Y Wang, M Kyriakidis, VN Dang - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2021 - Elsevier
Evacuation modelling has developed over time from simple engineering equations that do
not consider behavioral tendencies to more sophisticated models with the potential to …

Efficacy of virtual reality for studying people's pre-evacuation behavior under fire

ELM Bourhim, A Cherkaoui - International Journal of Human-Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent proliferation of consumer-level virtual reality (VR) headsets such as the HTC
Vive, is creating a growing user-base in demand of highly-controlled immersive virtual …

Predicting human behavior during fires

E Kuligowski - Fire technology, 2013 - Springer
Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are
used to calculate the time it takes to evacuate a building, which can then be used in an …

A model of the decision-making process during pre-evacuation

R Lovreglio, E Ronchi, D Nilsson - Fire Safety Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
The behaviour of building occupants before the purposive movement towards an exit, known
as the pre-evacuation behaviour, can have a strong impact on the total time required to …

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 …

A pre-evacuation database for use in egress simulations

R Lovreglio, E Kuligowski, S Gwynne, K Boyce - Fire safety journal, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying the pre-evacuation time (ie, the time between first awareness and deliberate
evacuation movement), is a key task for evacuation model users and fire safety engineers …

An Evacuation Decision Model based on perceived risk, social influence and behavioural uncertainty

R Lovreglio, E Ronchi, D Nilsson - Simulation Modelling Practice and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The behaviour of people in the first stage of an evacuation can have a significant impact on
the time required to reach a safe place. This behaviour is known in literature as pre …

Risk perception in fire evacuation behavior revisited: definitions, related concepts, and empirical evidence

MT Kinateder, ED Kuligowski, PA Reneke… - Fire science …, 2015 - Springer
Risk perception (RP) is studied in many research disciplines (eg, safety engineering,
psychology, and sociology). Definitions of RP can be broadly divided into expectancy-value …

Following the crowd or avoiding it? Empirical investigation of imitative behaviour in emergency escape of human crowds

M Haghani, M Sarvi - Animal behaviour, 2017 - Elsevier
When humans escape from a threat in a crowded space, how do they choose the best
wayfinding strategy for their survival? This is a decision context in which individuals are …