On the relationship between crowd density and movement velocity

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 271-283

  Fang, Z ^a   Lo, S M ^b   Lu, J A ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crowd flow equations; Crowd movement; Inter person effect

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BUILDINGS; DAMPING; VELOCITY;

CROWD FLOW EQUATIONS;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 0037381898     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-7112(02)00058-9     Document Type: Article

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