@article{ref1,
title="Effect of form of obstacle on speed of crowd evacuation",
journal="Physical review. E",
year="2018",
author="Yano, Ryosuke",
volume="97",
number="3-1",
pages="e032319-e032319",
abstract="This paper investigates the effect of the form of an obstacle on the time that a crowd takes to evacuate a room, using a toy model. Pedestrians are modeled as active soft matter moving toward a point with intended velocities. An obstacle is placed in front of the exit, and it has one of four shapes: a cylindrical column, a triangular prism, a quadratic prism, or a diamond prism. Numerical results indicate that the evacuation-completion time depends on the shape of the obstacle. Obstacles with a circular cylinder (C.C.) shape yield the shortest evacuation-completion time in the proposed model.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2470-0045",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032319",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032319"
}