Models of wayfinding in emergency evacuations

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 371-389

  Løvås, Gunnar G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STATNETT SF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evacuation; Human behaviour; Queuing network; Simulation; Stochastic routing; Transportation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUEUEING THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EMERGENCY EVACUATIONS; STOCHASTIC ROUTING; WAYFINDING BEHAVIOUR;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032023755     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0377-2217(97)00084-2     Document Type: Article

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