Contributions to a conference proceedings

Emergency exits as bottlenecks in escape routes are important for designing traffic facilities. Especially the fundamental diagram is a crucial performance criterion for assessment of pedestrians' safety in facilities and an important basis for calculation methods. [...]

For a proper understanding and modeling of pedestrian dynamics reliable empirical data are needed. Often the level of heterogeneity of pedestrians in laboratory experiments does not correspond with the level in the field. [...]

We report on the development of phase-separated, disordered nanopillars that are integrated as corrugated or as planarized light scattering layers for the outcoupling of waveguide and substrate modes in organic light emitting diodes..

Pedestrian behaviours tend to depend on the type of facility. Accurate predictions of pedestrian movement in complex geometries (including corridor, bottleneck or intersection) are difficult to achieve for models with few parameters. [...]

Stop-and-go waves are commonly observed in traffic and pedestrian flows. In traffic theory they are described by phase transitions of metastable models. [...]