Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005

Abstract

Due to an increasing number of catastrophes, the safety especially of pedestrians, has become a growing field of interest. The questions mainly address the dynamics of evacuating people and possible optimisations of the process by changing the architecture and/or the procedure. These questions were addressed at the conference held in Vienna. Front Matter; Federal Investigation of the Evacuation of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001; Free speed distributions -- Based on empirical data in different traffic conditions; Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time; Full-Scale Evacuation Experiments in a smoke filled Rail Carriage -- a detailed study of passenger behaviour under reduced visibility; Minimum Stair Width for Evacuation, Overtaking Movement and Counterflow -- Technical Bases and Suggestions for the Past, Present and Future; Study on information guiding based on human psych-physiological responses in China.