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Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020 Rail transit stations with multifloor structures have been built in many cities to intensively utilize land resources and facilitate lives of community. However, being overcrowded with passengers results in high risks during daily operation. In response,
Hui Xu, Cheng Tian, Yang Li
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A GIS-based Micro-simulation Queue Model for Vehicle Evacuation [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2012 In urban areas, people’s life may be threatened by disasters such as earthquakes. To reduce the life risks, efficient responses including evacuation are of critical importance.
Jian Ma +4 more
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Simulation of labor evacuation: The case of housing construction projects
HBRC Journal, 2018 Construction sites occupy of the labors who are engaged in many different activities that can expose them to dangerous conditions. During emergencies and extreme events of natural or manmade origin in construction sites, saving labors lives is the ...
Mohamed Marzouk, Ismail Al Daoor
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An Evacuation Time Correction Method for Passenger Ships Fire Considering Passenger Panic
IEEE Access, 2022 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 panic and an evacuation time correction method based on an improved social ...
Junbo Li +3 more
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Lessons from the evacuation of the World Trade Center, Sept 11th 2001 for the future development of computer simulations [PDF]
, 2005 This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in evacuation simulations. These interactive computer based tools have been developed to help the owners and designers of large public buildings to assess the risks that occupants might face during ...
Johnson, C.W.
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2021 The development of a hurricane evacuation simulation model is a crucial task in emergency management and planning. Two major issues affect the reliability of an evacuation model: one is estimations of evacuation traffic based on socioeconomic ...
Yuan Zhu +4 more
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Safety in residential buildings: Evacuation from residential buildings without fire escape stairs [PDF]
Vojnotehnički Glasnik, 2021 Introduction/purpose: Safety in high residential buildings presents a very important and always actual task. In case of some unforeseen and dangerous occurrences, their residents must be evacuated.
Radoje B. Jevtić
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A Virtual Reality Simulation Method for Crowd Evacuation in a Multiexit Indoor Fire Environment
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Evacuation simulations in virtual indoor fire scenes hold great significance for public safety. However, existing evacuation simulation methods are inefficient and provide poor visualized when applied to virtual reality (VR) simulations.
Yukun Guo +7 more
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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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Buildings, 2023 The spatial layout and arrangement of obstacles in the built environment significantly affect its evacuation performance. However, few researchers focus on pedestrian simulation-based design optimization of built environment under emergency evacuation ...
Haitao Lian +3 more
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