Evacuation simulation models: Challenges in modeling high rise building evacuation with cellular automata approaches

Automation in Construction

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-385

  Pelechano, Nuria ^a   Malkawi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd simulation; Evacuation simulation tools; High rise building design

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CROWD SIMULATION; EVACUATION SIMULATION TOOLS; HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 38749097426     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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