Call for Papers

Fifth International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics

• New data relating to human performance: 
  • Understanding human performance in emergency and non-emergency scenarios, including experiments, drills, and the investigation of real incidents.
  • New insights into our understanding of evacuation/pedestrian dynamics derived from new or existing human performance data.
  • New methods of data collection, extraction, and data analysis.
• New modeling of evacuation and pedestrian dynamics: 
  • Advances in evacuation/pedestrian dynamics models that utilize a novel approach to modeling movement and/or behavior
  • New modeling capabilities that utilize a novel approach within existing models.
  • New insights into our understanding of evacuation/pedestrian dynamics derived from modeling
  • Validation efforts associated with evacuation/pedestrian models.
• Novel applications of models or methods: 
  • Challenging engineering applications of emergency/non-emergency models.
  • Regulatory challenges associated with engineering applications.
  • New methods of generating/presenting model results.

Printable Call for Papers Flyer

1. Author's name(s) and affiliation(s).  Corresponding author should be indicated for abstracts that include multiple authors
2. An indication of whether the abstract should be considered as a paper or a poster.  If you wish to be considered in both categories, please submit two abstracts.
3. Poster abstracts should be no longer than one page and paper abstracts should be no longer than two pages. 
4. Include appropriate contact information for the corresponding author.  Authors will be notified by e-mail on acceptance of their submissions.