Determining Subway Emergency Evacuation Efficiency Using Hybrid System Dynamics and Multiple Agents
Mathematics, 2022 With the rapid development of the city, more and more people are choosing the subway as their travel mode. However, the hidden dangers of the subway are becoming increasingly prominent, and emergency evacuation of the subway has become a key factor for ...
Kai Yu, Nannan Qu, Jifeng Lu, Lujie Zhou
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Emergency burr holes:" How to do it" [PDF]
, 2012 This paper describes a simple approach to emergency burr hole evacuation of extra-axial intracranial haematoma that can be used in the uncommon situation when life saving specialist neurosurgical intervention is not ...
Davies, G +3 more
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A review on passenger emergency evacuation from multimodal transportation hubs
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online), 2022 Multimodal transportation hubs serve as transfer points with the function of collecting, transferring, and distributing passengers and play a significant role in the entire multimodal transportation network.
Zhiman Xu +4 more
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Robot-assisted discovery of evacuation routes in emergency scenarios [PDF]
, 2008 — When an emergency occurs within a building, it is crucial to guide victims towards emergency exits or human responders towards the locations of victims and hazards.
Ettore Ferranti, Niki Trigoni
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Applying the lessons of the attack on the World Trade Center, 11th September 2001, to the design and use of interactive evacuation simulations [PDF]
, 2005 The collapse of buildings, such as terminal 2E at Paris' Charles de Gaule Airport, and of fires, such as the Rhode Island, Station Night Club tragedy, has focused public attention on the safety of large public buildings.
Johnson, C.W.
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Does a large group of pedestrians follow the evacuation signs? An experimental study
Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2022 Guidance signs are generally considered to be key in improving the efficiency of emergency building evacuations. During a group evacuation, how obedient is the group to the evacuation signs?
Jiguang Shi +4 more
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The Cry Wolf Effect in Evacuation: a Game-Theoretic Approach
, 2019 In today's terrorism-prone and security-focused world, evacuation emergencies, drills, and false alarms are becoming more and more common. Compliance to an evacuation order made by an authority in case of emergency can play a key role in the outcome of ...
Mohlin, Erik +2 more
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Emergency evacuation of people with disabilities: A survey of drills, simulations, and accessibility
Cogent Engineering, 2018 A natural or man-made disaster may destabilize the structure of a building and endanger the lives of its occupants. Evacuating occupants in the shortest possible time is the first reaction in such situations, often referred to as indoor emergency ...
Mahdi Hashemi
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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2020 There were increasing concerns on the possibility and suitability of using elevators for high-rise building evacuation because, through the improvement of the elevator system, the self-evacuation ability of age people is promoted as much as possible in ...
Yameng Chen +6 more
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Optimizing evacuation efficiency under emergency with consideration of social fairness based on a cell transmission model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Traffic assignment and management objectives are considered as two significant parts in developing the emergency evacuation plan, which can directly influence the evacuation performance and efficiency. From the perspective of disaster response operators,
Xuedong Yan, Xiaobing Liu, Yulei Song
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