A Potential Based Many-Particle Model for Pedestrian Flow

DOI

10.2991/itoec-15.2015.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Speed-density relationship; Path-choice strategy; Evacuation; Lane formation

Abstract

We propose a many-particle model for pedestrian dynamics, which simply assumes that the velocity (including both magnitude and direction) of a pedestrian depends on the positions of all pedestrians. This is similar to that in the well-known social force model. However, our formulation is computationally efficient because the influences of all other pedestrians on the referred pedestrian are taken into account through the reconstruction of densities, the speed-density relationship, and the cost potential field that is also determined by densities. In the meantime, the formulation is able to simulate complex phenomena, such as the arching in front of exits, the formation of lanes in counterflow.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaoyang Li
AU  - Peng Zhang
AU  - Dianliang Qiao
AU  - Wong S.C.
AU  - Choi Keechoo
PY  - 2015/03
DA  - 2015/03
TI  - A Potential Based Many-Particle Model for Pedestrian Flow
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 Information Technology and Mechatronics Engineering Conference
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 281
EP  - 286
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itoec-15.2015.54
DO  - 10.2991/itoec-15.2015.54
ID  - Li2015/03
ER  -