The EvacSim pedestrian evacuation agent model: Development and validation

Simulation Series

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 43-50

  Murphy, Seán Óg ^a   Brown, Kenneth N ^a   Sreenan, Cormac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Emergency; Evacuation simulation; Model evaluation; Pedestrian; Real time

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY; EVACUATION SIMULATION; MODEL EVALUATION; PEDESTRIAN; REAL TIME;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84880679362     PISSN: 07359276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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