Happy Street

Preface
The Dutch pavilion, designed by architect/artist John Körmeling, is called ‘Happy Street’. It’s an entire street in the shape of the number eight, an auspicious number in Chinese culture. Visitors to the pavilion stroll along houses in different styles that represent Dutch architectural tradition, including designs by Gerrit Rietveld and Jan Wils. During their trip, the visitors will also have the possibility to do an activity (interactive).  The simulation model is visualized in both 2d and 3d view of the pavilion.

“The Urbanian Pavilion”

Introduction
In the year 2010 the World Expo will be held in Shanghai, China. The Dutch design studio Kossmann.dejong was awarded one of the five theme pavilions called the “Urbanian Pavilion”. In total, the World Expo has 200 participants, for duration of six months. About 70 million visitors are expected. On average 40.000 people will visit the “Urbanian Pavilion” daily. Important decisions concerning the infrastructure and visitors flow were made. With the use of simulation, INCONTROL Simulation Solutions helped Kossmann.dejong in creating a clear view on the effect of different scenarios on the visitors flow. In total, the visitors will walk 800 meters through the pavilion. During this trip they will enter six theme areas. In each of these areas a different show is presented.

Introduction
Incontrol continues its journey in analyzing the pedestrian activities at special infrastructures. A project is done at the soccer stadium of PSV Eindhoven. Since PSV became champion of the Dutch league for 7 times in the last 10 years one could say that PSV Eindhoven is one of the most successful soccer teams in the Netherlands. The stadium has a capacity of 35.000 seats located in an upper and a lower ring in the stadium. Every soccer game PSV is seeking to optimize the pedestrian flows by managing the different activities that people undergo during their stay. These activities include for example, ticket sale, security check-in and the sale of food and beverages. Next to this, PSV want to create insight in evacuation scenarios. Since doing an evacuation drill with 35.000 people is quite a complex matter, PSV is still searching for other methods that can help in analyzing different evacuation solutions. The last years the stadium, next to soccer games, has been used for other purposes like concerts. Since the infrastructure was not initially created for these other commercial purposes, PSV also seeks for optimization of the pedestrian flows during these events. In the following paragraphs there is described how INCONTROL helped PSV in dealing with these issues.

Amsterdam Central station is a monumental railway station, dating from 1889. It has been built on an artificial island in the river IJ and has a foundation, which consists of roughly 9000 wooden piles. This Stations Island is one of three major transfer hubs in the Netherlands and connects railways, subway system, trams, busses, ferries, cars, bikers and pedestrians.
The station building itself is not only used by train and subway passengers, but its tunnels are also used as a passage between the waterfront of the IJ river and the City centre by a large amount of pedestrians.