This book provides an understanding of people's accessibility needs, and the barriers that may affect people with different identities and circumstances (e.g. different levels of mobility, age, etc.) to alleviate any act of disabling a person and thus offer equal quality of life in the design of stadia. A lack of knowledge exists for stadia concerning demographics, specific accessibility and inclusive design solutions, available movement and behavioural data, and how future growth in attending disabled populations may affect the overall safety of circulation and evacuation in stadia. To address these needs a data collection and modelling were performed and are described in this book. The book recognizes that stadia design is at a revolutionary stage of advancement. Automated data collection technologies and methodologies are described where the authors work towards presentation of big data which can be used for future refinement of modelling technologies and AI routines.

Presents a three- phased research program including survey and modeling of pedestrian behaviour in stadia Provides a comprehensive database for movement profiles of disabled persons in stadia Includes the State -of -the -Art in Artificial Intelligence for modeling movement of people in stadia egress

Autorentext

Dr. John Gales is an associate professor at York University, Department of Civil Engineering in Toronto, Canada, where he leads their Fire Safety Engineering Research Group. His primary research interests include resilient structural fire design and human behaviour in emergency situations.

Inhalt
Introduction to Pedestrian Movement and Behaviour in Stadia.- Survey of the Importance of Accessibility Features in Stadia.- Data Collection of Movement and Behaviour of Pedestrians in Stadia.- Evacuation and Pedestrian Modelling in Stadia.- Strategies and Technology for Effective Evacuation Design of Stadia.