Using non-human biological entities to understand pedestrian crowd behaviour under emergency conditions

Safety Science

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Shiwakoti, Nirajan ^a   Sarvi, Majid ^a   Burd, Martin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crowd dynamics; Design solutions; Disaster; Evacuation; Scaling

Indexed keywords

CROWD DYNAMICS; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOURS; EMERGENCY CONDITIONS; EVACUATION; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; REGARDLESS OF SPECIES; SCALING;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; DISASTERS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ANT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; EMERGENCY; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PEDESTRIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84896718375     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.01.010     Document Type: Article

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