Self-organized pedestrian crowd dynamics: Experiments, simulations, and design solutions

Transportation Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-24

  Helbing, Dirk ^a   Buzna, Lubos ^a,b   Johansson, Anders ^a,c   Werner, Torsten ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILINA   (Slovakia)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evacuation dynamics; Granular flow; Panic behavior; Pedestrian crowd dynamics; Self organization

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERSECTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EVACUATION DYNAMICS; GRANULAR FLOW; PANIC BEHAVIOR; PEDESTRIAN CROWD DYNAMICS; SELF ORGANIZATION;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 16344391062     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1040.0108     Document Type: Article

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