Special Issue Call for Papers:
Empirical Research on Pedestrians’ Behavior and Crowd Dynamics
Journal of Advanced Transportation
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jat/si/878420/cfp/
Submission Deadline Friday, 1 February 2019
Publication Date June 2019
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/jat/eddr/.
Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date.
This special issue aims at reducing the gap between the theoretical and empirical body of knowledge in the domain of pedestrian dynamics by encouraging data-driven studies. The issue covers studies ranging from normal-condition movements to evacuation scenarios. The main criterion of inclusion is the demonstration of substantial and robust links to empirical data (whether from experimental or field sources). We also strongly encourage studies related to the calibration and validation of pedestrian models. These models can encompass those of pedestrian motions and pedestrian dynamics to behavioral models of wayfinding, decision-making, and beyond. Purely experimental studies that make significant contributions to fundamental understanding of pedestrians’ behavior are also welcome.
Although the primary focus of this special issue is on empirical and data-driven studies, theoretical and methodological work that offer significant contributions to the field may also be considered. Also, simulation-based or computational studies that draw informative parallels with the existing empirical data (e.g., comparing simulated versus observational fundamental diagrams) and studies that report on simulation-based behavior modifications (e.g., identifying optimum behavior) may also be considered.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
-Innovative methods of data collection, measurement, and visualization in pedestrian research and crowd control (including machine- and deep-learning techniques)
-External validity, generalizability, and replicability of pedestrian experiments
-Applications of virtual-reality and augmented reality experiments (e.g., in the domain of emergency evacuations)
-Evacuation drill experiments and studies that make systemic use of field data in actual emergencies like fires, earthquakes, and so on
-Pedestrian safety in crowded walkways and intersections
-New methodologies for simulation-based replication of well-known crowd phenomena or simulation-based re-examination of controversial crowd phenomena
-Innovative collection and analyses of field pedestrian data in transportation hubs
-Calibration and validation of modeling approaches for simulating complex transportation nodes
Guest Editors: Milad Haghani, University of Sydney ([log in to unmask]), Nikolai Bode, University of Bristol ([log in to unmask]), Maik Boltes, Forschungszentrum Jülich ([log in to unmask]), Alessandro Corbetta, Eindhoven University of Technology ([log in to unmask]), Emiliano Cristiani, National Research Council of Italy ([log in to unmask])
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline Friday, 1 February 2019
Publication Date June 2019
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