A proposed pedestrian waiting-time model for improving space-time use efficiency in stadium evacuation scenarios

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1774-1784

  Fang, Zhixiang ^a,b   Li, Qingquan ^a,b   Li, Qiuping ^a   Han, Lee D ^c   Wang, Dan ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Measure of effectiveness; Pedestrian evacuation; Space time path; Use efficiency; Waiting time model

Indexed keywords

MEASURE OF EFFECTIVENESS; PEDESTRIAN EVACUATION; SPACE-TIME PATH; USE EFFICIENCY; WAITING-TIME;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; EFFICIENCY; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RECREATION CENTERS; STADIUMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MODELING; PEDESTRIAN; PUBLIC SPACE;

EID: 79954992706     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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