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Crowd Evacuation Simulation

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Evacuation simulation systems simulate the evacuation behaviors of people during emergencies. In an emergency, people are upset and hence do not behave as they do during evacuation drills. Reports on past disasters reveal various unusual human behaviors. An agent-based system enables an evacuation simulation to consider these human behaviors, including their mental and social status. Simulation results that take the human factor into consideration seem to be a good tool for creating and improving preventions plans. However, it is important to verify and validate the simulation results for evacuations in unusual scenarios that have not yet occurred. This chapter shows that the combination of an agent’s physical and mental status and pedestrian dynamics is the key to replicating various human behaviors in crowd evacuation simulation. This realistic crowd evacuation simulation has the potential for practical application in the field.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, Meijo University, 1-501 Shiogamaguchi, Tempaku, Nagoya, 468-8502, Japan

    Tomoichi Takahashi

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  1. Motion & More, Barcelona, Spain

    Bertram Müller

  2. Klinik für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgi, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Sebastian I. Wolf

  3. Institut for Biomechanics und Orthopedic, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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    William Scott Selbie

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Takahashi, T. (2016). Crowd Evacuation Simulation. In: Müller, B., et al. Handbook of Human Motion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30808-1_17-1

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