Route choice in pedestrian evacuation under conditions of good and zero visibility: Experimental and simulation results

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 669-686

  Guo, Ren Yong ^a   Huang, Hai Jun ^b   Wong, S C ^c  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Evacuation; Pedestrian experiment; Pedestrian model; Route choice; Visibility

Indexed keywords

VIDEO RECORDING; VISIBILITY;

DISCRETE SPACE REPRESENTATIONS; EVACUATION; IN-BUILDINGS; MICROSCOPIC PEDESTRIANS; PEDESTRIAN EVACUATIONS; PEDESTRIAN EXPERIMENTS; PEDESTRIAN MODELS; ROUTE CHOICE;

EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

BUILDING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84860886490     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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