Congested emergency evacuation of a population using a finite automata approach

Safety Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 267-272

  Pereira, L A ^a   Duczmal, L H ^b   Cruz, F R B ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Evacuation total time; Extreme value distribution; Finite automata

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA APPROACH; DIRECT FUNCTIONS; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; EVACUATION TOTAL TIME; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; REAL SITUATION; SIMULATION PROGRAM; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE AUTOMATA; POPULATION STATISTICS;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY SHELTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINITE AUTOMATA; FIRE ECOLOGY; FLOODING; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PEDESTRIAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TIME;

EID: 84865434583     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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