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Overview

Armin Seyfried is affiliated with the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, focusing primarily on research that intersects engineering and social sciences. Their work encompasses several key areas including evacuation and crowd dynamics, traffic control and management, and safety and risk reliability.

Their research output includes over 60 publications in engineering and nearly 20 in social sciences. Subfields of particular interest cover ocean engineering, transportation, safety, risk, reliability and quality, control and systems engineering, and artificial intelligence. Seyfried's research topics prominently feature:

  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Traffic Control and Management
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

The scientist has contributed to numerous scholarly venues, with a notable presence in the following journals and platforms:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Collective Dynamics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Safety Science
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Selected recent papers authored by or co-authored with Seyfried include:

  • "Microscopic insights into pedestrian motion through a bottleneck, resolving spatial and temporal variations," 2022, Collective Dynamics
  • "A map representation of the ASET-RSET concept," 2020, Fire Safety Journal
  • "Inside a life-threatening crowd: Analysis of the Love Parade disaster from the perspective of eyewitnesses," 2023, Safety Science
  • "Experimental study on age and gender differences in microscopic movement characteristics of students*," 2021, Chinese Physics B
  • "A Cloud-Based Deep Learning Framework for Early Detection of Pushing at Crowded Event Entrances," 2023, IEEE Access

Frequent collaborators include Mohcine Chraibi, Maik Boltes, Anna Sieben, Mira Küpper, and Sarah Paetzke. Seyfried has worked extensively with these colleagues, contributing to various interdisciplinary projects and co-authored publications.

Best Publications

  • Evacuation Dynamics: Empirical Results, Modeling and Applications

    Andreas Schadschneider;Wolfram Klingsch;Hubert Kluepfel;Tobias Kretz

  • The fundamental diagram of pedestrian movement revisited

    Armin Seyfried;Bernhard Steffen;Wolfram Klingsch;Maik Boltes

  • New Insights into Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks

    Armin Seyfried;Oliver Passon;Bernhard Steffen;Maik Boltes

  • Methods for measuring pedestrian density, flow, speed and direction with minimal scatter

    B. Steffen;A. Seyfried

  • Generalized centrifugal-force model for pedestrian dynamics.

    Mohcine Chraibi;Armin Seyfried;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Ordering in bidirectional pedestrian flows and its influence on the fundamental diagram

    J Zhang;W Klingsch;A Schadschneider;A Seyfried;A Seyfried

  • Collecting pedestrian trajectories

    Maik Boltes;Armin Seyfried

  • Transitions in pedestrian fundamental diagrams of straight corridors and T-junctions

    Jun Zhang;Wolfram Klingsch;Andreas Schadschneider;Armin Seyfried;Armin Seyfried

  • Basics of Modelling the Pedestrian Flow

    Armin Seyfried;Bernhard Steffen;Thomas Lippert

  • Evacuation Dynamics: Empirical Results, Modeling and Applications

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  • Enhanced Empirical Data for the Fundamental Diagram and the Flow Through Bottlenecks

    Armin Seyfried;Maik Boltes;Jens Kähler;Wolfram Klingsch

  • Automatic Extraction of Pedestrian Trajectories from Video Recordings

    Maik Boltes;Armin Seyfried;Bernhard Steffen;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Force-based models of pedestrian dynamics

    Mohcine Chraibi;Ulrich Kemloh;Andreas Schadschneider;Armin Seyfried

  • Collective phenomena in crowds-Where pedestrian dynamics need social psychology.

    Anna Sieben;Jette Schumann;Armin Seyfried;Armin Seyfried

  • Fundamental diagrams for multidirectional pedestrian flows

    Shuchao Cao;Shuchao Cao;Armin Seyfried;Jun Zhang;Stefan Holl

  • Modeling the dynamic route choice of pedestrians to assess the criticality of building evacuation

    Armel Ulrich Kemloh Wagoum;Armin Seyfried;Armin Seyfried;Stefan Holl;Stefan Holl

  • Transitions in pedestrian fundamental diagrams of straight corridors and T-junctions

    Jun Zhang;Wolfram W. F. Klingsch;Andreas Schadschneider;Armin Seyfried;Armin Seyfried

  • Disentangling the impact of social groups on response times and movement dynamics in evacuations.

    Nikolai W. F. Bode;Stefan Holl;Wolfgang Mehner;Armin Seyfried

  • Performance of stairs: fundamental diagram and topographical measurements

    Sebastian Burghardt;Armin Seyfried;Armin Seyfried;Wolfram Klingsch

  • Empirical results for pedestrian dynamics and their implications for modeling

    Andreas Schadschneider;Armin Seyfried

  • Evacuation Dynamics: Empirical Results, Modeling and Applications

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  • Comparison of intersecting pedestrian flows based on experiments

    Jun Zhang;Armin Seyfried;Armin Seyfried

  • Experimental Study on Pedestrian Flow through Wide Bottleneck

    Weichen Liao;Weichen Liao;Armin Seyfried;Jun Zhang;Maik Boltes

  • VALIDATION OF CA MODELS OF PEDESTRIAN DYNAMICS WITH FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAMS

    A. Schadschneider;A. Seyfried

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Cox
Jürgen Cox Max Planck Society
Weiguo Song
Weiguo Song University of Science and Technology of China
Katsuhiro Nishinari
Katsuhiro Nishinari University of Tokyo
Winnie Daamen
Winnie Daamen Delft University of Technology
Michael Herty
Michael Herty RWTH Aachen University
Michael Schreckenberg
Michael Schreckenberg University of Duisburg-Essen
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
John Drury
John Drury University of Sussex
Jian Ma
Jian Ma City University of Hong Kong
João L. Afonso
João L. Afonso University of Minho

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