New approaches to evacuation modelling

This document presents the contributions of the Workshop “New approaches to evacuation modelling” that took place on the 11th of June 2017 in Lund, Sweden within the Symposium of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). The scope of the workshop was to get insights into the building fire evacuation modelling world from experts in areas other than fire safety engineering. The workshop included contributions from five experts in different fields, namely 1) Psychology/Human Factors, 2) Sociology, 3) Applied Mathematics, 4) Transportation, 5) Dynamic simulation and biomechanics. This report presents a collection of the position papers which summarize the presentations given by the experts, the comments, questions and answers session after each presentation and the final workshop discussion