While people with disabilities have different travel patterns compared with the general
traveller population, such discrepancies are ignored in mainstream travel demand modelling …

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 …

People make risky decisions during fire evacuations such as moving through smoke.
However, the reasons behind such risk-taking decisions have not been investigated in …

This paper aims to measure the effect of individuals with simulated disabilities on evacuation
processes in a room with an exit through a controlled experiment. A total of 60 individuals …

Individual wayfinding decisions are critical for evacuation efficiency in building emergencies.
By synthesizing the increasing volume of relevant literature, this study proposes a theoretical …

It is unclear how building occupants use information about the social and built environment
when choosing an egress route during emergency evacuation. Conflicting tendencies have …

The importance of guides has been paid more attentions by managers of large buildings
during the establishment of evacuation plans. Considering the inaccuracy of perceptual …

This study presents the findings of an evacuation experiment involving a mixed population of
able-bodied walking pedestrians and wheelchair users. A simulation model capable of …

With the aging of the world's population and the resulting increase of disabilities, the
characteristics of pedestrian flow mixed with wheelchair users has been paid more and …

Earthquake simulations at the urban scale usually focus on estimating the damages to the
built environment and the consequent losses without fully taking into account human …