| Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Klingsch, Wolfram W. F. (Editor), Rogsch, Christian (Editor), Schadschneider, Andreas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642045030 ISBN-13: 9783642045035 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Psychology - Technology & Engineering | Automotive |
| Dewey: 363.340 |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.6" W x 9.4" (3.40 lbs) 833 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Proper management of evacuation processes is one of the basic requirements within life safety concepts, and it helps to prevent critical situations from getting out of control. Super high-rise buildings, deep underground stations or shopping areas, airplanes for the mass transportation, sport stadiums or meeting places with tens of thousands of visitors-they all call for new dim- sionsinsafeevacuationplanning. Researchresultsinevacuationdynamicsgive answers to these challenges. PED-conferences are the prime address for all research in this ?eld. The increasing number of participants from di?erent ?elds of research re?ect theirimportance. AfterPED-conferencesinGermany(Duisburg,2001), Great Britain (Greenwich, 2003) and Austria (Vienna, 2005), the PED 2008 C- ference in Wuppertal/Germany reached new heights with more than 120 p- ticipants from 20 countries and nearly 100 presentations. The wide ?eld of topics discussed in presentations also re?ects deeper understanding of fun- mental e?ects as well as the stronger interactions between di?erent research areas. New test designs o?er new important basic data, new analysis pro- dures open a better understanding of complex interactions, new model - signs allow more realistic simulations, and the input from architectural - sign and the medical references on physical limitations help to realize a safe evacuation design. On the one hand all these data give an outlook of future possibilities and sometimes they open an astonishing new understanding of seemingly well-known data. On the other hand, they make clear the limi- tions of our current knowledge. |
