Emergency Door Capacity: Influence of Door Width, Population Composition and Stress Level

For the new version of the Dutch design guidelines for buildings, a threshold value for the capacity of emergency doors needs to be set. Innovative largescale laboratory experiments have been performed to investigate the capacity of emergency doors during evacuation conditions. This paper focuses in particular on the relation between capacity...

Capacity Reductions at Incidents Sites on Motorways

Incidents cause a large part of the delays in road networks. This is caused by a decrease of the capacity at the incident site. A detailed knowledge of the queue discharge rate can improve for instance the traffic prediction and thereby improve delay information or routing advice. Therefore, this study determines the queue discharge rate for...

Verkeersmanagement bij exceptionele omstandigheden

Hoe kwetsbaar onze verkeersinfrastructuur is, blijkt wel bij exceptionele omstandigheden. Eén incident (calamiteit of ongeval) en er ontstaat een verkeersinfarct. Kan dit worden voorkomen? Zo ja, hoe dan? Zijn er bruikbare modellen om effecten in te schatten? En hoe staat het met de human factor, welhaast in elke keten de meest kwetsbare schakel...

The Influence of Spillback Modelling when Assessing Consequences of Blockings in a Road Network

Robustness of a network is a main objective for road network managers these days, and has therefore become an important study area for transportation scientists. This article discusses one specific aspect in assessing road network robustness: the consequences of the closure of a link. These spillback effects have been examined in a dedicated...

Empirical analysis of two-leader car-following behavior

Opportunities of advanced driver assistance systems towards overtaking

Decision support in dynamic traffic management

Controlled experiments to derive walking behaviour

ADAS impact assessment by micro-simulation