Evaluating Standstill Detection Systems: A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of standstill detections systems

Assessment of Non-Recurrent Congestion on Dutch Motorways

Congestion is a problem that nowadays is facing people all over the world. It affects (in different degrees) developed countries as well as undeveloped. Congestion and queues on freeways cost money due to loss of time and therefore productivity. As a result it is considered important to assess it, in order to determine the severity of the...

Pedestrian behaviour and its relation to doorway capacity

According to the Dutch building regulations, called Building Decree, 135 persons per minute should be able to safely escape via a doorway with a width of 1 meter, which is the same as 2.25 persons per second per meter. Since this value has been based on experiments conducted with healthy students, doubts have been raised on the validity of this...