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Emergency Evacuation Simulation in Open Air Events Using a Floor Field Cellular Automata Model

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Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2019)

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In order to enhance human safety in open air events and simulate evacuation scenarios, a two dimensional cellular automata model is proposed based on human behavior. To make the model more reasonable, human behavior effects like inertial, group effect, friction, pedestrian velocity, wall repulsion and panic behavior were included. A demo scenario of the proposed system in Pützchens Markt’s fair in Bonn with different numerical results is also discussed.

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This work is co-funded by the European Union (EU) within the MONICA project under grant agreement number 732350. The MONICA project is part of the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 and the IoT European Large-Scale Pilots Program.

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    Dionysios Strongylis, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Georgios Stavropoulos, Konstantinos Votis & Dimitrios Tzovaras

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Strongylis, D., Kouzinopoulos, C.S., Stavropoulos, G., Votis, K., Tzovaras, D. (2019). Emergency Evacuation Simulation in Open Air Events Using a Floor Field Cellular Automata Model. In: Moura Oliveira, P., Novais, P., Reis, L. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11805. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30244-3_53

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