Simulating Crowds in Egress Scenarios

by Vinïcius J. Cassol, Soraia R. Musse, Clïudio R. Jung, Norman I Badler

Overview

This book describes, from a computer science viewpoint the software, methods of simulating and analysing crowds with a particular focus on the effects of panic in emergency situations.


The power of modern technology impacts on modern life in multiple ways every day. A variety of scientific models and computational tools have been developed to improve human safety and comfort in built environments. In particular, understanding pedestrian behaviours during egress situations is of considerable importance in such contexts. Moreover, some places are built for large numbers of people (such as train stations and airports and high volume special activities such as sporting events).


Simulating Crowds in Egress Scenarios discusses the use of computational crowd simulation to reproduce and evaluate egress performance in specific scenarios. Several case studies are included, evaluating the work and different analyses, and comparisons of simulationdata versus data obtained from real-life experiments are given.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319652016
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/09/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	107
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Background Review.- Crowd Simulation.- Case Studies.- Crowd Analysis Based on Computer vision.- Final Remarks.