Due to the constraints of various factors influencing human evacuation on board, it remains
a challenging problem to accurately quantify the impact of these factors on the evacuation …

This paper presents the results of an unannounced theatre evacuation involving 1200
occupants. The evacuation took place towards the end of a live theatre performance in the …

Data-driven crowd modeling has now become a popular and effective approach for
generating realistic crowd simulation and has been applied to a range of applications, such …

Introduction Aiming at evaluating the efficiency of passenger ship emergency evacuation
routes, this study proposes an evaluation operator for passenger ship emergency …

Evacuation route optimization is a crucial problem in emergency management of cruise
ships. To solve a multi-route planning problem of evacuating all passengers and crews on …

Due to the rapid expansion of cruise travel market as well as in light of the great loss caused
by several maritime disasters, passenger ship evacuation in case of emergency has …

For passenger vessels operating in polar waters, the Polar Code requires that in case of
possibility of immersion in polar waters, thermal protective immersion suits (TPIS) should be …

The aim of this work was to investigate whether social culture impacts how people respond
to an evacuation alarm. As part of this work four unannounced library evacuations were …

An evacuation model validation data-set collected as part of the EU FP7 project
SAFEGUARD is presented. The data was collected from a cruise ship operated by Royal …

To investigate the effects of panic and age composition on the evacuation efficiency of
passenger ships, this study proposes an evacuation simulation method in the case of crowd …