Clinician-patient communication about emergency aerial medical evacuation in case of infectious disease.
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Published in Journal of travel medicine
Clinician-patient communication about emergency aerial medical evacuation in case of infectious disease.
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Influence of committed volunteers on helping behavior in emergency evacuations
Published in Journal of Physics: Complexity
We study how the presence of committed volunteers influences the collective helping behavior in emergency evacuation scenarios. In this study, committed volunteers do not change their decision to help injured persons, implying that other evacuees may adapt their helping behavior through strategic interactions. An evolutionary game theoretic model i...
Factors Influencing Hospital Emergency Evacuation during Fire: A Systematic Literature Review
Published in International Journal of Preventive Medicine
Background: Although the hospital is known as a safe place for treating patients, due to various reasons, it is prone to several internal hazards, including fire. This study aimed to identify the factors affecting hospital emergency evacuation during fire. Methods: This was a systematic review conducted according to the PRISMA guideline. Thematic C...
Consumer opinion of stair descent devices used during emergency evacuation from high-rise buildings.
Published in Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
The use of stair descent devices is an important part of a comprehensive emergency evacuation plan. To date, there is little research on consumer opinion of these devices. A pilot study was performed at a local center for independent living, enabling 14 consumers with mobility impairments to state their initial impressions of 14 devices, representi...
Application of portrait recognition system for emergency evacuation in mass emergencies
Published in Journal of Intelligent Systems
A portrait recognition system can play an important role in emergency evacuation in mass emergencies. This paper designed a portrait recognition system, analyzed the overall structure of the system and the method of image preprocessing, and used the Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) algorithm for portrait detection. It also designed an improved a...
Pedestrian–bus route and pickup location planning for emergency evacuation
Planning for a bus-based regional evacuation is essential for emergency preparedness, especially for hurricane or flood prone urban environments with large numbers of transit-dependent or transit-captive populations. This paper develops an optimization-based decision-support model for pedestrian–bus evacuation planning under bus fleet, pedestrian a...
BIM and Computer Vision-Based Framework for Fire Emergency Evacuation Considering Local Safety Performance
Fire hazard in public buildings may result in serious casualties due to the difficulty of evacuation caused by intricate interior space and unpredictable development of fire situations. It is essential to provide safe and reliable indoor navigation for people trapped in the fire. Distinguished from the global shortest rescue route planning, a frame...
Cruise ships like buildings: Wayfinding solutions to improve emergency evacuation
Published in Building Simulation
This research aims at demonstrating that wayfinding solutions can improve the effectiveness of the evacuation processes in complex architectural spaces such as those of cruise ships. We investigated the behaviours of passengers in maritime disaster to figure out whether people act similarly during buildings egress and ships evacuation. Data were co...
Crowd Simulation and Its Applications: Recent Advances
Published in Journal of Computer Science and Technology
This article surveys the state-of-the-art crowd simulation techniques and their selected applications, with its focus on our recent research advances in this rapidly growing research field. We first give a categorized overview on the mainstream methodologies of crowd simulation. Then, we describe our recent research advances on crowd evacuation, pe...
Modelling total evacuation strategies for high-rise buildings
Published in Building Simulation
This paper focuses on the use of egress models to assess the optimal strategy in the case of total evacuation in high-rise buildings. The model case study consists of two identical twin towers linked with two sky-bridges at different heights. Each tower is a 50-floor office building. The use of either horizontal or vertical egress components or a c...
