Statistical Behavior of a Crowd Composed of Individuals and Couples During Panic Evacuation

• Activity Number: 267
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, August 10, 2015 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Author(s): Guillermo Frank* and Claudio Dorso
• Companies: University of Buenos Aires and University of Buenos Aires
• Keywords: Panic Evacuation ; Simulation ; Human behavior

Abstract

Understanding the timing requirements for evacuation of people has focused primarily on individual pedestrians rather than pedestrians emotionally connected. However, the main statistical effects observed in crowds, the so-called "faster is slower", "smartness is not always better" and "low visibility improvement", can not explain the overall behavior of a crowd during an evacuation process when couples related by feelings are present. Our research addresses this issue and examines in detail the statistical behavior of a mixture of individuals and couples during a (panic) escaping process. In particular, we analyzed the role that the feelings intensity play in time delays during the evacuation of a room.