Modeling the evacuation of large-scale crowded pedestrian facilities

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2198, 2010, Pages 152-160

  Abdelghany, Ahmed ^a   Abdelghany, Khaled ^b   Mahmassani, Hani ^c   Al Ahmadi, Hasan ^d   Alhalabi, Wael ^e  

^a EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southern Methodist University   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^e Two Holy Mosque Institute of Hajj Research   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RULES; CELLULAR AUTOMATONS; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; EVACUATION PROCESS; LARGE-SCALES; MICROSIMULATION; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; PATH CHOICE; PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION-MODELLING;

EID: 79951536081     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2198-17     Document Type: Article

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