A Real-Time Modelling of Crowd Dynamics for Disaster Prevention

Grant number: DP160103291 | Funding period: 2016 - 2020

Completed

Abstract

This project aims to develop methods and technologies to enable urban planners to design infrastructures to ensure public safety in emergency situations and to enable emergency management to optimise effective response plans. Rapid population growth creates major challenges for urban management, which has a responsibility to ensure the safety of citizens in the case of emergencies. This project aims to develop a methodology to study pedestrian crowd dynamics under panic or extreme emergency conditions, using innovative experimental approaches with new multi-scale online simulation methods and optimisation techniques. The resultant methodology would support planning and prediction of pedestri..

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Evacuation behaviour of crowds under high and low levels of urgency: Experiments of reaction time, exit choice and exit-choice adaptation

M Haghani, M Sarvi, Z Shahhoseini

2020-06-01

How does evacuation behaviour of crowds vary based on the level of perceived urgency? This question was investigated using two sim..

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Dynamics of social groups’ decision-making in evacuations

M Haghani, M Sarvi, Z Shahhoseini, M Boltes

2019-07-01

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The possible presence of social groups amongst occupants in indoor evacuation scenarios and the potential disc..

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‘Herding’ in direction choice-making during collective escape of crowds: How likely is it and what moderates it?

M Haghani, M Sarvi

2019-06-01

The most likely responses of humans in emergency escape scenarios is not perfectly understood and many of the current behavioural ..

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Imitative (herd) behaviour in direction decision-making hinders efficiency of crowd evacuation processes

M Haghani, M Sarvi

2019-04-01

Humans use social information to improve their decisions in scenarios that involve uncertainty. Previous research has shown that t..

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Pedestrian crowd flows in shared spaces: Investigating the impact of geometry based on micro and macro scale measures

Z Shahhoseini, M Sarvi

2019-04-01

The motion dynamics of humans in crowded built environments during evacuations are impacted by individuals’ interactions with the ..

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When ‘push’ does not come to ‘shove’: Revisiting ‘faster is slower’ in collective egress of human crowds

M Haghani, M Sarvi, Z Shahhoseini

2019-04-01

We revisit the assumption stating that greater levels of rush in pedestrians’ collective egress through narrow bottlenecks impedes..

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Simulating pedestrian flow through narrow exits

M Haghani, M Sarvi

2019-01-12

Introduction: The flow of pedestrians through narrow doorways is one of the most common features of crowd motions and evacuations...

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'Rationality' in Collective Escape Behaviour: Identifying Reference Points of Measurement at Micro and Macro Levels

M Haghani, M Sarvi

2019-01-01

Background. Evacuation behaviour of human crowds is often characterised by the notion of 'irrational behaviour'. While the term ha..

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Hypothetical bias and decision-rule effect in modelling discrete directional choices

M Haghani, M Sarvi

2018-10-01

Introduction: This empirical study investigates, in parallel, two key questions in relation with modelling discrete choices. (i) T..

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