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Edwin R. Galea is affiliated with the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Ocean Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Social Psychology, and Modeling and Simulation.

Galea's work encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Infection Control and Ventilation
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Maritime Navigation and Safety
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

The scientist has contributed multiple publications to frequent venues such as:

  • Safety Science
  • Fire Safety Journal
  • Fire Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • The International Journal of Maritime Engineering

Recent notable papers include:

  • "A coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics and Wells-Riley model to predict COVID-19 infection probability for passengers on long-distance trains" (2021), published in Safety Science
  • "Building Information Modelling for performance-based Fire Safety Engineering analysis - A strategy for data sharing" (2021), published in Journal of Building Engineering
  • "Inflight transmission of COVID-19 based on experimental aerosol dispersion data" (2021), published in Journal of Travel Medicine
  • "Cross-cultural comparison of behavioural itinerary actions and times in wildfire evacuations" (2020), published in Safety Science
  • "Exploring the potential effectiveness of dynamic and static emergency exit signage in complex spaces through simulation" (2021), published in Fire Safety Journal

Galea's frequent collaborators include:

  • J. Ewer
  • Steven Deere
  • Zhaozhi Wang
  • Angus Grandison
  • F. Jia

Best Publications

  • Perceptions of autonomous vehicles: Relationships with road users, risk, gender and age

    Lynn M. Hulse;Hui Xie;Edwin R. Galea

  • A review of the methodologies used in the computer simulation of evacuation from the built environment

    S. Gwynne;E. R. Galea;M. Owen;Peter J. Lawrence

  • Modelling occupant interaction with fire conditions using the buildingEXODUS evacuation model

    S. Gwynne;E. R. Galea;Peter J. Lawrence;L. Filippidis

  • A computer-based simulation model for the prediction of evacuation from mass-transport vehicles

    E.R. Galea;J.M. Perez Galparsoro

  • A review of the methodologies used in evacuation modelling

    S. Gwynne;E. R. Galea;M. Owen;Peter J. Lawrence

  • The EXODUS evacuation model applied to building evacuation scenarios

    Matthew Owen;Edwin R. Galea;Peter J. Lawrence

  • The UK 9/11 evacuation study: Analysis of survivors’ recognition and response phase in WTC1

    Nigel McConnell;Karen Boyce;Jim Shields;Ed Galea

  • Representing the Influence of Signage on Evacuation Behavior within an Evacuation Model

    Lazaros Filippidis;Edwin R. Galea;Steve Gwynne;Peter Lawrence

  • Experimental analysis of the effectiveness of emergency signage and its implementation in evacuation simulation

    Hui Xie;Lazaros Filippidis;Edwin R Galea;Darren Blackshields

  • A General Approach to Validating Evacuation Models with an Application to EXODUS

    Edwin R. Galea

  • Experimental and survey studies on the effectiveness of dynamic signage systems

    Edwin R. Galea;Hui Xie;Peter J. Lawrence

  • Investigating the representation of merging behavior at the floor–stair interface in computer simulations of multi-floor building evacuations

    E.R. Galea;G. Sharp;P.J. Lawrence

  • The Collection and Analysis of Pre-evacuation Times Derived from Evacuation Trials and Their Application to Evacuation Modelling

    S. Gwynne;E.R. Galea;J. Parke;J. Hickson

  • Signage Legibility Distances as a Function of Observation Angle

    Hui Xie;Lazaros Filippidis;Steven Gwynne;Edwin R. Galea

  • A systematic comparison of buildingEXODUS predictions with experimental data from the Stapelfeldt trials and the Milburn House evacuation

    S. Gwynne;E.R. Galea;M. Owen;P.J. Lawrence

  • Individual Stair Ascent and Descent Walk Speeds Measured in a Korean High-Rise Building

    Jun-Ho Choi;Jun-Ho Choi;Edwin Richard Galea;Won-Hwa Hong

  • On the Field Modelling Approach to the Simulation of Enclosure Fires

    Edwin Galea

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of an improved active dynamic signage system using full scale evacuation trials

    Edwin R. Galea;Hui Xie;Steven Deere;David Cooney

  • Pedestrian and evacuation dynamics 2003: proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics, Greenwich, UK, 20-22 August 2003

    Edwin R. Galea

  • Coupled Fire/Evacuation Analysis of the Station Nightclub Fire

    Edwin R. Galea;Zhaozhi Wang;Anand Veeraswamy;Fuchen Jia

  • Computer modelling of human behaviour in aircraft fire accidents

    Edwin R Galea;Mathew Owen;Peter J Lawrence

  • Evacuation modelling analysis within the operational research context : A combined approach for improving enclosure designs

    R. Machado Tavares;E.R. Galea

Frequent Co-Authors

Silke Schmidt
Silke Schmidt University of Greifswald
N.C. Markatos
N.C. Markatos National Technical University of Athens
David V. Canter
David V. Canter University of Liverpool
Guillermo Rein
Guillermo Rein Imperial College London
Federico Toschi
Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology
Longhua Hu
Longhua Hu University of Science and Technology of China
Jinhua Sun
Jinhua Sun University of Science and Technology of China
Andreas G. Boudouvis
Andreas G. Boudouvis National Technical University of Athens
Luke Bisby
Luke Bisby University of Edinburgh
Bart Merci
Bart Merci Ghent University

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