TY - JOUR

T1 - Computer simulation approach to interdisciplinary research of crowds behavior in regular and emergency situations

AU - Glebovsky, Alexander Yu

AU - Ivanov, Vladimir M.

AU - Arsenjev, Dmitry G.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © BEIESP. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Behavior of massive assemblies of people - large crowds or dense (intensive) pedestrian flows occurring in confined spaces (public buildings, shopping malls, airport terminals, public transport stations, concert halls), or in the open grounds (squares, streets, sports arenas) - attracts growing attention as a specific pressing sphere of urgent diverse multidisciplinary scientific research. This is mainly due to the critically increasing number of extraordinary incidents such as natural calamities (devastating earthquake, hurricane), technogenic accidents (explosion, fire, sudden destruction, etc.) or anthropogenic hazards (acts of terrorism) - those that over past decades have inflicted large-scale casualties and loss of life among urban population around the world. Extensive consideration has been paid to design and introduction of preventive measures against such disasters. Practitioners of urban planning, architects, civil engineers, emergency responders, etc., are professionally in need of methods and tools to evaluate the degree of a facility safety, to foresee the possible consequences of public gathering places construction, to be able to predict the potential dangers, to estimate probabilities of pedestrian traffic congestions. Investigations in this vast sphere embrace many domains, among other including human physiology, psychology, sociology, anthropometry, empirical studies on human behavior, analytical methods of events prediction, and computer simulation methods and techniques. [6] - [10].

AB - Behavior of massive assemblies of people - large crowds or dense (intensive) pedestrian flows occurring in confined spaces (public buildings, shopping malls, airport terminals, public transport stations, concert halls), or in the open grounds (squares, streets, sports arenas) - attracts growing attention as a specific pressing sphere of urgent diverse multidisciplinary scientific research. This is mainly due to the critically increasing number of extraordinary incidents such as natural calamities (devastating earthquake, hurricane), technogenic accidents (explosion, fire, sudden destruction, etc.) or anthropogenic hazards (acts of terrorism) - those that over past decades have inflicted large-scale casualties and loss of life among urban population around the world. Extensive consideration has been paid to design and introduction of preventive measures against such disasters. Practitioners of urban planning, architects, civil engineers, emergency responders, etc., are professionally in need of methods and tools to evaluate the degree of a facility safety, to foresee the possible consequences of public gathering places construction, to be able to predict the potential dangers, to estimate probabilities of pedestrian traffic congestions. Investigations in this vast sphere embrace many domains, among other including human physiology, psychology, sociology, anthropometry, empirical studies on human behavior, analytical methods of events prediction, and computer simulation methods and techniques. [6] - [10].

KW - Anthropogenic hazards

KW - Anthropometry

KW - Crowds behavious

KW - Simulation

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M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85067973553

VL - 8

SP - 1251

EP - 1252

JO - International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering

JF - International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering

SN - 2278-3075

IS - 5

ER -