Indoor crowd evacuation refers to the coordinated process by which groups of people exit a confined built environment in response to an emergency or planned scenario, governed by individual movement behaviors and collective crowd dynamics. It matters for the field because accurate modeling and simulation of evacuation flows enables the design of safer buildings, optimized exit configurations, and effective emergency response strategies. Key variants in the literature include physics-inspired approaches such as social force models and kinetic-theory-of-active-particles (KTAP) frameworks, as well as density field and equipotential navigation methods, with some models further coupling evacuation dynamics to infectious disease contagion to capture health-related risks during mass egress events.
Source Papers
- A Spatial Kinetic Model of Crowd Evacuation Dynamics with Infectious Disease Contagion ↗ — A Spatial Kinetic Model of Crowd Evacuation Dynamics with In
- Crowd evacuation simulation method combining the density field and social force model ↗ — Crowd evacuation simulation method combining the density fie