APICI´s President will give the conference:

ITS, intelligent transport systems and management of emergency/evacuation situations in metro systems 

• Understanding the safety challenges, automatic and overcrowded metro systems- how they face this
• Exploring the possibilities of new technologies and IT systems and how they can help in both critical operation situations and facilitate the management of emergency situations
• Using real time information and big data techniques gives operators and safety managers the key information they need in any critical moment
• Outlining how pedestrian modelling techniques could provide an accurate evacuation time and identify possible aspects in critical emergency situations
• Assessing how to evaluate different possible scenarios in order to set up the most appropriate emergency procedures
• Investigating benefits by using intelligent evacuation and emergency lighting.