6th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics - PED 2012

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About the conference

The continuously growing number of events with hundreds to thousands of visitors, the increasing complexity of the built environment - faced with on-going growth of pedestrian movement - and the need to be prepared to handle more and more complex incident scenarios of fire, terrorism, and large-scale community disasters give reason to focus on the understanding of the behaviour of humans as pedestrians and also evacuation dynamics. The aim is to provide answers for policy makers, planners, designers, and emergency management to solve real world problems in this rapidly developing field.

The Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED) conference will address both pedestrian and evacuation dynamics. A better understanding of human behaviour is the key to planning and management of pedestrian flows. A limited view from only one perspective or from one planning discipline respectively seems not to be promising for resolving the problems due to the advancing level of complexity. Furthermore a link is needed from research to practice to become aware of problems on the one hand and methods and tools on the other hand.

The PED conference is the place to present research results, practical experiences, real world problems and to communicate and discuss between/beyond disciplines.

PED 2012 will be the sixth edition of this successful conference series that started in Duisburg, Germany in 2001. Previous conferences had also been held in Greenwich, UK (2003), Vienna, Austria (2005), Wuppertal, Germany (2008) and Gaithersburg, USA (2010).

Confirmed keynote speakers

• Marjolein de Jong
  Universiteit Hasselt
  "The characteristics and needs of pedestrians with mobility impairments - How to move around comfortably and safely with a reduced ability to walk, see, hear, feel or process information"
• Uwe Hanebeck
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  "Multimodal Extended Range Telepresence in Pedestrian Simulation"
• Paul I. Weinmann
  ICTS Europe, Amsterdam
  "Behavior Assessment of Individuals in Crowds - a View from the Perspective of Aviation and Airport Security"
• Mehdi Moussaïd
  Max Planck Institute, Berlin
  "The modeling of human crowd behavior: Where physics meets cognitive science"
• Peter Jenkins
  Building Design Partnership, Manchester
  "Shaping the space: turning function into inspiration"
• Andrew Hutton
  Network Rail, London
  "London Bridge – the significant role ped modelling plays in designing the new station and how to deliver it"
• Chris Kemp
  Buckinghamshire New University
  "New developments in crowd management, safety and dynamics - Managing risk for safer crowded places"

Evening presentation / press event

• Thomas Brudermann
  University of Graz
  "Mass psychology revisited - Insights from Social Psychology, Neuroscience and Simulation"

Conference topics include:

• Behavioral aspects of pedestrian movements
• Data collection techniques
• Disasters: recent case studies
• Disasters: theories, analysis, conclusions
• Evacuation and pedestrian data collection from experiments and real events
• Large-scale and transport modeling
• Model development and modeling methods
• Model validation/calibration
• Passenger transport logistics
• Population development worldwide
• Public transport transfer terminals
• Regional evacuation
• ... and related research areas

Papers and posters presenting recent work on major practical planning projects are also welcome. The projects should involve the latest pedestrian research findings.

Conference delegates / target audience include:

• Operators / administrators of public transport facilities
• Researchers of human behaviour
• Transportation engineers
• Architects
• Social scientists
• Rail operators
• Fire safety engineers
• Robotics experts
• Simulation software developers
• Computer scientists
• Airport operators
• Safety and security planners / personnel
• Manufacturers of mechanical people movers, elevators, escalators, etc.
• City planners
• Rolling stock manufacturers
• Members of transport authorities
• ...