Experiment and modeling of exit-selecting behaviors during a building evacuation

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It is found that pedestrians tend to select the exit with shorter distance to them, especially when the people density is small or medium, which reflects the fact that a crowd of people may not be rational to optimize the usage of multi-exits, especially in an emergency.

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2010-02-15
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Social force model, Simulation, Flow (mathematics), Process (computing), Computer science

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