Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED) is an international conference that is held every two years with international participation of scientists, practitioners, and representatives of authorities, and welcomes contributions from physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science and vision, psychology, and sociology, as well as contributions from practitioners.
| Date: | 9-12 September 2025 PhD workshop followed by three full conference days (keynote, contributed talks, posters, evening social events) |
| Venue: | Prague, Czechia, campus of Czech Technical University in Prague |
| Fee: | 500-700 EUR (with discount for PhD students) |
| Proceedings: | Acta Polytechnica CTU proceedings (will be submitted for indexing in Scopus and WOS) |
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Key dates
| Deadline for abstract submission | 14 March 2025 (extended) |
| Notification of acceptance | April 2025 |
| Registration | May – August 2025
(early bird by June 2025) |
| Conference | 9-12 September 2025 |
| Deadline for paper submission | October 2025 |
Scope of the conference
The scope of the conference includes, but is not strictly limited to, various topics related to pedestrian dynamics:
- experiments and data acquisition,
- statistical evaluation and fundamental aspects of pedestrian flow,
- fire safety and safety aspects,
- psychological and behavioral aspects,
- model development, calibration and validation,
- simulation studies,
- applications and crowd management,
- machine learning, computer vision, and VR research in pedestrian dynamics.