March 2010
Retired Engineer
Jack Fruin, Ph.D., P.E. has received a life
achievement award from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology of the US Department of
Commerce. Jack retired in 1984 after 30 years of PA
service. He was the recipient of the 1968
Commissioner Howard S. Cullman Memorial Fellowship
award.
Jack used the
Fellowship to complete his doctoral studies in
Transportation Planning. He is the author of a book
and more than 50 publications on pedestrian traffic,
crowd dynamics, and safety. He has been a consultant
to US Customs, US DOT, and a number of other
federal, state, and municipal agencies. He has
consulted on bus, rail, air transportation terminal
design, as well as a variety of different venues
including, museums, hi-rise buildings and shopping
centers.
Friends can
contact him at:
frujack@optonline.net
Fifth
International Conference on Pedestrian and
Evacuation Dynamics
Start Time: Monday, March 8, 2010 at 8:00am
End Time: Wednesday, March
10, 2010 at 5:00pm
Location: NIST
Gaithersburg Campus
Description
In many countries, an aging population, increasing
obesity and more people with impairments are
bringing new challenges to the management of routine
and emergency people movement. These population
challenges, coupled with the innovative designs
being suggested for both the built environment and
other commonly used structures (e.g., transportation
systems) and the increasingly complex incident
scenarios of fire, terrorism, and large-scale
community disasters, provide even greater challenges
to population management and safety. Key to
effective management procedures is a better
understanding of human performance in a variety of
incident scenarios, tools that assess human
performance in these scenarios, and the proper use
of such tools. The Pedestrian and Evacuation
Dynamics (PED) conference will address both
pedestrian and evacuation dynamics and associated
human behavior to provide answers for policy makers,
designers, and emergency management to solve real
world problems in this rapidly developing field.
The Organizing and Program Committees have assembled
an excellent technical program featuring a plenary
on vertical egress systems as well as papers and
posters on the following topics:
* Evacuation and pedestrian data collection from
experiments and real events
* Data collection methods
* Behavioral theory for models
* Model development and modeling methods
* Large-scale and transport modeling
* Model validation/calibration
* Engineering guidance
In total, the program consists of 68 oral papers in
(mainly) parallel sessions and 40 poster papers
presented over 3 days by an international and
diverse group of speakers.