TY - CONF A1 - Geoerg, Paul A1 - Schumann, J. A1 - Boltes, M. A1 - Holl, S. A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja T1 - The influence of individual impairments on crowd dynamics T2 - Proceedings Interflam 2019 N2 - 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 this reason, several studies were performed during the last decades which focus on the quantification of movement through bottlenecks. These studies were usually conducted with populations of homogeneous characteristics to reduce influencing variables and for reasons of practicability. Studies which consider heterogeneous characteristics in performance parameters are rarely available. In response and to reduce this lack of data a series of well-controlled large-scale movement studies considering pedestrians with different disabilities was carried out. T2 - Interflam 2019 CY - London, UK DA - 01.07.2019 KW - Evacuation PY - 2019 VL - 2019 SP - 775 EP - 791 PB - Interscience CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-48647 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Geoerg, Paul A1 - Schumann, J. A1 - Boltes, M. A1 - Holl, S. A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja T1 - The influence of physical and mental constraints to a stream of people through a bottleneck T2 - Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Pedestrians and Evacuation Dynamics N2 - Understanding movement in heterogeneous groups is important for a meaningful evaluation of evacuation prediction and for a proper design of buildings. The understanding of interactions and influencing factors in heterogeneous groups on key performance figures is fundamental for a safe design. This contribution presents results of experimental studies on movement of a crowd through a bottleneck involving participants with and without disabilities. High precise trajectories of the attendees extracted from video recordings were used to calculate density and velocity of the participants. Besides the well-established fundamental diagram new insights into the individual relation between density and velocity are discussed. A complex structure and considerate behaviour in movement implicates a strong influence of the heterogeneity on key performance values of safe movement. T2 - 9th international conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2018) CY - Lund, Sweden DA - 21.08.2018 KW - Human behaviour KW - Egress KW - Evacuation KW - Pedestrians with disabilities KW - Engineering data PY - 2018 SP - 57-1 EP - 57-6 CY - Lund, Sweden AN - OPUS4-46266 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -