A5050478272- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Traffic control and management
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Elevator Systems and Control
- Underground infrastructure and sustainability
- Fire Detection and Safety Systems
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
- Education, Safety, and Science Studies
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis
- Management, Economics, and Public Policy
- Fire effects on concrete materials
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
University of Canterbury
2018-2024
Excillum (Sweden)
2023-2024
RxFunction (United States)
2022
Lund University
2002-2019
Chalmers University of Technology
2013-2018
Volvo (Sweden)
2017-2018
Volvo Cars (Sweden)
2017-2018
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1997-2011
Stockholm School of Economics
2006
Virtual reality (VR) has become a popular approach to study human behavior in fire.The present position paper analyses Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) of VR as research tool for fire.Virtual environments provide maximum experimental control, are easy replicate, have relatively high ecological validity, allow safe occupant scenarios that otherwise would be too dangerous.Lower validity compared field studies, ergonomic aspects, technical limitations the main weaknesses...
Summary The egress strategy in high‐rise buildings has traditionally been based on the sole use of stairs for evacuation. However, it is becoming more common to include evacuation elevators buildings. Traditionally, have not allowed as an route, and people instructed case fire. This means that might still consider even if they are designed be safe Even choose elevators, willing wait very long elevator arrive. Virtual reality (VR) experiments were conducted study exit choice waiting time...
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To date, there is no International standard on procedures and tests to assess the verification validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models. Often it case that model testers adopt inconsistent procedures, or designed for other uses they do not test them all features embedded in their model. For instance, presented within MSC/Circ.1238 (Guidelines analysis new existing passenger ships) provided by Maritime Organization are often employed V&V models outside original context use (e.g....
Summary This article explores how egress drills—specifically those related to fire incidents—are currently used, their impact on safety levels, and the insights gained from them. It is suggested that neither merits of drills are well understood, nor performance characterized. In addition, manner in which they conducted varies both between within regulatory jurisdictions. By investigating strengths limitations, this suggests opportunities for enhancement possibly through use other models...
An experimental study has been conducted to investigate if a new and simple system, that is, stripes of high-bright dynamic green LED lights installed on the floor, can support people way-finding in smoke-filled railway tunnel evacuations. The impact installations evacuation (intended as movement paths times) studied using Oculus Rift, head-mounted display (HMD) device for virtual reality. Two different installation setups have investigated. A rail scenario developed environment behavior 60...
SUMMARY In fire safety engineering, information about the expected walking speed of occupants through smoke is often one factor that interest to designer. However, despite fact research already in 1970s demonstrated people tend evacuate smoke, little has been performed on topic since, and evidently, there a lack data smoke. This created situation where engineering assessments required safe escape time may be intimately associated with high uncertainties, especially for buildings which can...