Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008

Experiment and Evacuation

1. Front Matter

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2. The UK WTC9/11 Evacuation Study: An Overview of the Methodologies Employed and Some Preliminary Analysis

   • Edwin R. Galea, Lynn Hulse, Rachel Day, Asim Siddiqui, Gary Sharp, Karen Boyce et al.

   Pages 3-24

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3. Evacuation Movement in Photoluminescent Stairwells

   • Guylène Proulx, Noureddine Bénichou

   Pages 25-42

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4. Automatic Extraction of Pedestrian Trajectories from Video Recordings

   • Maik Boltes, Armin Seyfried, Bernhard Steffen, Andreas Schadschneider

   Pages 43-54

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5. Stairwell Evacuation from Buildings: What We Know We Don’t Know

   • Richard D. Peacock, Jason D. Averill, Erica D. Kuligowski

   Pages 55-66

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6. Evacuation of a High Floor Metro Train in a Tunnel Situation: Experimental Findings

   • Monika Oswald, Hubert Kirchberger, Christian Lebeda

   Pages 67-81

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7. Using Laser Scanner Data to Calibrate Certain Aspects of Microscopic Pedestrian Motion Models

   • Dietmar Bauer, Kay Kitazawa

   Pages 83-94

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8. Pedestrian Vision and Collision Avoidance Behavior: Investigation of the Information Process Space of Pedestrians Using an Eye Tracker

   • Kay Kitazawa, Taku Fujiyama

   Pages 95-108

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9. FDS+Evac: An Agent Based Fire Evacuation Model

   • Timo Korhonen, Simo Hostikka, Simo Heliövaara, Harri Ehtamo

   Pages 109-120

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10. Comparisons of Evacuation Efficiency and Pre-travel Activity Times in Response to a Sounder and Two Different Voice Alarm Messages

    • David Purser

    Pages 121-134

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11. Design of Voice Alarms—the Benefit of Mentioning Fire and the Use of a Synthetic Voice

    • Daniel Nilsson, Håkan Frantzich

    Pages 135-144

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12. Enhanced Empirical Data for the Fundamental Diagram and the Flow Through Bottlenecks

    • Armin Seyfried, Maik Boltes, Jens Kähler, Wolfram Klingsch, Andrea Portz, Tobias Rupprecht et al.

    Pages 145-156

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13. Parameters of Pedestrian Flow for Modeling Purposes

    • Valerii V. Kholshevnikov, Dmitrii A. Samoshin

    Pages 157-170

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14. Emergency Preparedness in the Case of a Tsunami—Evacuation Analysis and Traffic Optimization for the Indonesian City of Padang

    • Gregor Lämmel, Marcel Rieser, Kai Nagel, Hannes Taubenböck, Günter Strunz, Nils Goseberg et al.

    Pages 171-182

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15. Case Studies on Evacuation Behaviour in a Hotel Building in BART and in Real Life

    • Margrethe Kobes, Nancy Oberijé, Martina Duyvis

    Pages 183-201

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16. Analysis of Empirical Trajectory Data of Pedestrians

    • Anders Johansson, Dirk Helbing

    Pages 203-214

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17. Model-Based Real-Time Estimation of Building Occupancy During Emergency Egress

    • Robert Tomastik, Satish Narayanan, Andrzej Banaszuk, Sean Meyn

    Pages 215-224

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18. Experiments on Evacuation Dynamics for Different Classes of Situations

    • Jarosław Was

    Pages 225-232

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19. Prediction and Mitigation of Crush Conditions in Emergency Evacuations

    • Peter J. Harding, Martyn Amos, Steve Gwynne

    Pages 233-246

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