Enhancing the panic escape of crowd through architectural design

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 260-267

  Shiwakoti, Nirajan ^a   Sarvi, Majid ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological organisms; Crowd dynamics; Disaster; Egress; Pedestrians; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMIMETICS; DISASTERS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; CROWD DYNAMICS; EGRESS; PEDESTRIANS; SIMULATION;

ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; MODEL TEST; MOVEMENT; PLANNING METHOD; SAFETY;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 84910608697     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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