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Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005

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Editors:
  1. Nathalie Waldau

    1. Ingenieurbüro WALDAU, Wien, Austria

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  2. Peter Gattermann

    1. Österreichisches Institut für Schul- und Sportstättenbau, Wien, Austria

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  3. Hermann Knoflacher

    1. Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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  4. Michael Schreckenberg

    1. Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

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Due to an increasing number of reported catastrophes all over the world, the safety especially of pedestrians today, is a dramatically growing field of interest, both for practitioners as well as scientists from various disciplines. The questions arising mainly address the dynamics of evacuating people and possible optimisations of the process by changing the architecture and /or the procedure. This concerns not only the case of ships, stadiums or buildings, all with restricted geometries, but also the evacuation of complete geographical regions due to natural disasters. Furthermore, also ‘simple’ crowd motion in ‘relaxed’ situations poses new questions with respect to higher comfort and efficiency since the number of involved persons at large events is as high as never before. In addition, as a new research topic in this field, collective animal behaviour is attracting increasing attention. All this was in the scope of the conference held in Vienna, September 28–30, 2005, the third one in a series after Duisburg (2001) and Greenwich (2003).

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Pedestrian Performance Data

    1. Federal Investigation of the Evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

      • J. D. Averill, D. Mileti, R. Peacock, E. Kuligowski, N. Groner, G. Proulx et al.
      Pages 1-12

    2. Free speed distributions — Based on empirical data in different traffic conditions

      • W. Daamen, S. P. Hoogendoorn
      Pages 13-25

    3. Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time

      • J. Kerridge, S. Keller, T. Chamberlain, Neil Sumpter
      Pages 27-39

    4. Full-Scale Evacuation Experiments in a smoke filled Rail Carriage — a detailed study of passenger behaviour under reduced visibility

      • M. Oswald, C. Lebeda, U. Schneider, H. Kirchberger
      Pages 41-55

    5. Minimum Stair Width for Evacuation, Overtaking Movement and Counterflow — Technical Bases and Suggestions for the Past, Present and Future

      • J. L. Pauls, J. J. Fruin, J. M. Zupan
      Pages 57-69

    6. Study on information guiding based on human psych-physiological responses in China

      • J. Qiao, J. Shi, J. Rong, F. Ren
      Pages 71-77

    7. Research on pedestrian crowd characteristics and behaviours in peak-time on Chinese campus

      • J. Shi, Y. Chen, j. Rong, F. Ren
      Pages 79-90

  3. Pedestrian Dynamics

    1. Behaviour on tunnel fire

      • L. C. Boer, D. W. Veldhuijzen van Zanten
      Pages 91-98

    2. Earthquake — the importance of earthquake-resistant design in case of emergency evacuations

      • B. Çokcan, S. Brell-Çokcan, K. Tavoussi Tafreshi
      Pages 99-108

    3. Decision Loads and Route Qualities for Pedestrians — Key Requirements for the Design of Pedestrian Navigation Services

      • A. Millonig, K. Schechtner
      Pages 109-118

    4. Cyclone and Storm Surge, Pedestrian Evacuation and Emergency Response in India

      • A. Revi, A. K. Singh
      Pages 119-130

    5. Experimental Study and Theoretical Analysis of Signage Legibility Distances as a Function of Observation Angle

      • H. Xie, L. Filippidis, E. R. Galea, S. Gwynne, D. BlackShields, P. J. Lawrence
      Pages 131-143

    6. Exploring Pedestrian Shopping Decision Processes — an Application of Gene Expression Programming

      • W. Zhu, H. Timmermans
      Pages 145-154

  4. Evacuation Simulation

    1. A Discrete choice framework for acceleration and direction change behaviors in walking pedestrians

      • G. Antonini, M. Bierlaire
      Pages 155-166

    2. Calibration and validation of the Legion simulation model using empirical data

      • J. L. Berrou, J. Beecham, P. Quaglia, M. A. Kagarlis, A. Gerodimos
      Pages 167-181

    3. Evacuation Simulation for Road Tunnels — Findings from the use of microscopic methodology for escape route analyses

      • K. Botschek, B. Kohl, M. Steiner
      Pages 183-188

    4. A Data-Driven Model of Pedestrian Movement

      • L. Casburn, M. Srinivasan, R. A. Metoyer, M. J. Quinn
      Pages 189-200

    5. Distributed intelligence in pedestrian simulations

      • D. Cavens, C. Gloor, J. Illenberger, E. Lange, K. Nagel, W. A. Schmid
      Pages 201-212

    6. Design of Escape Routes by Simulating Evacuation Dynamics in Conjunction with a Probabilistic Safety Concept

      • M. Dehne, D. Kruse
      Pages 213-223
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Ingenieurbüro WALDAU, Wien, Austria

    Nathalie Waldau

  • Österreichisches Institut für Schul- und Sportstättenbau, Wien, Austria

    Peter Gattermann

  • Institut für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrstechnik, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Hermann Knoflacher

  • Physik von Transport und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Michael Schreckenberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005

  • Editors: Nathalie Waldau, Peter Gattermann, Hermann Knoflacher, Michael Schreckenberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47064-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47064-9Published: 26 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 495

  • Number of Illustrations: 145 b/w illustrations, 111 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applications of Mathematics, Behavioral Sciences

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