An anticipative crowd management system preventing clogging in exits during pedestrian evacuation processes

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-141

  Georgoudas, Ioakeim G ^a   Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch ^a   Andreadis, Ioannis Th ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Congestion; Crowd modeling; Pedestrian evacuation; Potential fields

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROSTATICS;

ANTICIPATIVE SYSTEMS; CONGESTION; CROWD MODELING; DETECTION AND TRACKING; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MOTION INFORMATION; PEDESTRIAN EVACUATIONS; POTENTIAL FIELD;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

EID: 78649691405     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2090400     Document Type: Article

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