Abstract
One of the fundamental properties of pedestrian simulation models is their capability to predict the future movement dynamics of pedestrians depending on the current state of the pedestrian traffic flow, more specically the walking behaviour of neighbouring pedestrians. This paper investigates the influence of the interaction characteristics on the strength of the reaction of pedestrians walking within a crowd, where the reaction consists of the absolute change in walking direction and speed. This paper studies the influence of the distance headway, time headway, angle of sight, angle of interaction, absolute speed and the number of pedestrians located nearby has been studied. Based on these ndings two main conclusions can be drawn, being 1) the operational adaptations of the walking behaviour of pedestrians is influenced by more characteristics of the situation than just the distance headway with respect to the pedestrian walking directly in front of a pedestrian, 2) pedestrians are more likely to change their direction rather than their walking speed when other pedestrians are located within close proximity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2016) |
| Publisher | University of Science and Technology of China Press |
| Pages | 326-333 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-7-312-04077-1 |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2016 |
| Event | 8th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics - Hefei, China Duration: 17 Oct 2016 → 21 Oct 2016 Conference number: 8 http://ped2016.ustc.edu.cn/ |
Conference
| Conference | 8th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics |
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| Abbreviated title | PED 2016 |
| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Hefei |
| Period | 17/10/16 → 21/10/16 |
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Keywords
- pedestrian movement dynamics
- interaction behaviour
- empirical trajectory data sets
- time headway
- distance headway