Abstract:
The investigation of human behaviour while trying to escape from a room under panic is an important issue in complex systems research. Several authors have called attention to the fact that placing an obstacle near the exit improves the evacuation time of the room (Helbing et al. (2000, 2005) [2,8], Hughes (2003) [6], Johansson and Helbing (2005) [16], Piccoli and Tosin (2009) [5]). We studied this effect in the context of the "social force model" (Helbing et al. (2000) [2]). We show that placing an obstacle does not guarantee, by itself, better chances of survival for all pedestrians. The way they choose to avoid the obstacle is critical for their own performance. We found not only that the faster they try to escape, the slower they get out ("faster is slower" effect), but also, the short cut they might take in order to get to the exit will probably do no better ("clever is not always better" effect). © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Título: | Room evacuation in the presence of an obstacle |
Autor: | Frank, G.A.; Dorso, C.O. |
Filiación: | Departamento de Fsica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Palabras clave: | Clogging delay; Panic evacuation; Social force model; Clogging delay; Complex systems; Evacuation time; Panic evacuation; Social force model; Social force models; Behavioral research |
Año: | 2011
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Volumen: | 390
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Número: | 11
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Página de inicio: | 2135
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Página de fin: | 2145
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.015 |
Título revista: | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
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Título revista abreviado: | Phys A Stat Mech Appl
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ISSN: | 03784371
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CODEN: | PHYAD
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Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03784371_v390_n11_p2135_Frank |
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Frank, G.A. & Dorso, C.O.
(2011)
. Room evacuation in the presence of an obstacle. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 390(11), 2135-2145.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.015---------- CHICAGO ----------
Frank, G.A., Dorso, C.O.
"Room evacuation in the presence of an obstacle"
. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390, no. 11
(2011) : 2135-2145.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.015---------- MLA ----------
Frank, G.A., Dorso, C.O.
"Room evacuation in the presence of an obstacle"
. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 390, no. 11, 2011, pp. 2135-2145.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.015---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Frank, G.A., Dorso, C.O. Room evacuation in the presence of an obstacle. Phys A Stat Mech Appl. 2011;390(11):2135-2145.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2011.01.015