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HERMES: An Evacuation Assistant for Large Sports Arenas Based on Microscopic Simulations of Pedestrian Dynamics

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The improvement of safety at mass events has become an important issue not only due to several disasters involving large crowds. To support security services in case of emergencies we have developed an evacuation assistant which allows forecasting the emergency egress of large crowds in complex buildings. Such a forecast requires pedestrian models which produce realistic crowd dynamics and, at the same time, can be simulated faster than real-time. Here we give an overview of the project and present first results.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been performed within the program “Research for Civil Security” in the field “Protecting and Saving Human Life” funded by the German Government, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project is supported under grant no. 13N9952 and 13N9960.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, 50937, Köln, Germany

    Andreas Schadschneider, Christian Eilhardt & Stefan Nowak

  2. Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    Armel Ulrich Kemloh Wagoum & Armin Seyfried

  3. Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Pauluskirchstraße 11, 42285, Wuppertal, Germany

    Armin Seyfried

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Computer Science, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Valery V. Kozlov

  2. Moscow State Automobile & Road Technical University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander P. Buslaev

  3. Russian Academy of Sciences, Electronics Institute and Kotel’nikov Radioengineeering, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander S. Bugaev

  4. Mathematical Cybernetics Department, Moscow Technical University of Communications & Informatics, Moscow, Russia

    Marina V. Yashina

  5. Universität Köln, Institut Theoretische Physik, Köln, Germany

    Andreas Schadschneider

  6. und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen Physik von Transport, Duisburg, Germany

    Michael Schreckenberg

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Schadschneider, A., Eilhardt, C., Nowak, S., Wagoum, A.U.K., Seyfried, A. (2013). HERMES: An Evacuation Assistant for Large Sports Arenas Based on Microscopic Simulations of Pedestrian Dynamics. In: Kozlov, V., Buslaev, A., Bugaev, A., Yashina, M., Schadschneider, A., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Traffic and Granular Flow '11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39669-4_27

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