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@ARTICLE{Bode:279789,
author = {Bode, Nikolai W. F. and Holl, Stefan and Mehner, Wolfgang
and Seyfried, Armin},
title = {{D}isentangling the {I}mpact of {S}ocial {G}roups on
{R}esponse {T}imes and {M}ovement {D}ynamics in
{E}vacuations},
journal = {PLoS one},
volume = {10},
number = {3},
issn = {1932-6203},
address = {Lawrence, Kan.},
publisher = {PLoS},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-07671},
pages = {e0121227 -},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Crowd evacuations are paradigmatic examples for collective
behaviour, as interactions between individuals lead to the
overall movement dynamics. Approaches assuming that all
individuals interact in the same way have significantly
improved our understanding of pedestrian crowd evacuations.
However, this scenario is unlikely, as many pedestrians move
in social groups that are based on friendship or kinship. We
test how the presence of social groups affects the egress
time of individuals and crowds in a representative crowd
evacuation experiment. Our results suggest that the presence
of social groups increases egress times and that this is
largely due to differences at two stages of evacuations.
First, individuals in social groups take longer to show a
movement response at the start of evacuations, and, second,
they take longer to move into the vicinity of the exits once
they have started to move towards them. Surprisingly, there
are no discernible time differences between the movement of
independent individuals and individuals in groups directly
in front of the exits. We explain these results and discuss
their implications. Our findings elucidate behavioural
differences between independent individuals and social
groups in evacuations. Such insights are crucial for the
control of crowd evacuations and for planning mass events.},
cin = {JSC},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000352138500203},
pubmed = {pmid:25785603},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0121227},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/279789},
}