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Evacuation Processes Versus Evacuation Models: “Quo Vadimus”?

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This paper promotes a discussion about evacuation models and their relation with evacuation processes. For this reason, the question “quo vadimus” (i.e., from Latin: where are we going to?) intends to initiate this discussion. Therefore, a brief overview of the importance of the evacuation modelling analysis within the Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) context is presented. This paper also presents an analysis of the evacuation modelling process and some remarks on how the evacuation models' reviews are being done as well. Furthermore, along with the previous question, some other subsequent key-questions can be aroused and this paper intends to analyse them, namely: Do we need the evacuation models for understanding evacuation processes? Are we doing the evacuation models' reviews properly? Do we understand well the evacuation models? Do we understand the evacuation modelling process?

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Tavares, R.M. Evacuation Processes Versus Evacuation Models: “Quo Vadimus”?. Fire Technol 45, 419–430 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-008-0063-7

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