Crowd dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Experiments

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Crowd dynamics Modeling, Simulation and
Experiments

• Simo Heliövaara
• Supervisor Prof. Harri Ehtamo
• Systems Analysis Laboratory
• Aalto University School of Science and Technology
• firstname.lastname_at_tkk.fi

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Computational models for the behavior and
interaction of people in crowds
Best-response reactions
Methods -Agent-based modeling -Game theoretic
learning models -Evolutionary game theory
Human behavior -Psychology -Observations on real
crowds -Experiments with students -Similarities
with animal swarms
FDSEvac-simulation model -Integration of crowd
simulation and state-of-the-art fire simu- lation
Multi-directional flow
Fire Evacuation
Applications Building design -Evacuation safety
analysis -Optimization of the usability of venues
Safety analysis of Porvoo Museum
Design of Helsinki Music Centre
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Exit selection (with Juha-Matti Kuusinen)

• Best-response dynamics for exit selection
• Myopic agents minimize their evacuation time
  (walking time queuing time)
• Results are compared to experimental results