Evacuation And Human Behaviour Episodes
068 - Human walking speed and factors that influence it with John Gales
Sept. 21, 2022
What factors influence the walking speed of an occupant? Is it just their physiology and crowd density? It seems it is more complicated than that (as most things are in fire science...). Dr John Gales of York University take…
052 - More realism in evacuation modelling with Anne Templeton
May 25, 2022
You have seen these lovely evacuation simulations, the ones with a bunch of agents moving together or clumping at an exit. Ones that we use to determine ASET condition, and which are present in almost every large PBD project…
037 - Human behavior misconceptions that lead to (mis)modelling with Enrico Ronchi
Feb. 9, 2022
If you were investigating phenomena and built your whole narrative around a flawed and debunked concept, would that get published? Would that get cited? Would that be recognized? Many of us would say an obvious *no*, but tha…
019 - Modelling human behaviour in wildfire evacuation with Erica Kuligowski
Sept. 21, 2021
There is plenty of fire engineers who think they are modelling human behaviour... Some claim they can do it... And there is very, very few who actually did and succeeded with it. One of them is today's guest, Dr Erica Kuligo…
016 - The future of evacuation modelling with Enrico Ronchi and Ruggiero Lovreglio
Sept. 1, 2021
Evacuation modelling is paramount in accounting for the human aspect in our fire modelling. But how is it developing? Where are we with our tools, and where are we heading with them? What are the most profound challenges rel…
009 - Cognitive biases and decision making in evacuation with Michael Kinsey
July 13, 2021
Why do we take certain decisions during an evacuation process? How do we choose the evacuation route? These are often affected by cognitive biases, which is the main theme of today's episode. With Dr Michael Kinsey we will d…