Evacuation and pedestrian dynamics guest editorial - 21st century grand challenges in evacuation and pedestrian dynamics

Abstract

The importance of evacuation and pedestrian dynamics modelling has increased significantly over the past ten years, reflecting the growing global prominence of performance-based safety codes and the desire to achieve ever higher levels of safety, efficiency and comfort in pedestrian systems. The need for relevant data on which to base a rigorous theoretical framework for the development and validation of these models has, in turn, driven renewed interest in experimental human factors research.