Microscopic Pedestrian Simulations: From Passenger Exchange Times to Regional Evacuation

Gerta Köster (), Dirk Hartmann () and Wolfram Klein ()
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Gerta Köster: University of Applied Sciences
Dirk Hartmann: Siemens AG, Corporate Technology
Wolfram Klein: Siemens AG, Corporate Technology

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2010, 2011, pp 571-576 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Pedestrian dynamics play an important role in diverse fields of application such as optimizing traffic logistics, e.g. the optimization of passenger exchange times, or egress planning of buildings, infrastructures and even whole regions. Quantitative predictions of pedestrian dynamics, namely of egress times, is an essential part of optimizing pedestrian flows. To obtain quantitative results simulations must be as realistic as possible. Here, we present a new microscopic pedestrian simulator based on a cellular automaton. It reduces discretization artifacts as typically observed in cellular automaton models to a minimum without loosing their efficiency. It reliably captures typical crowd phenomena and can simulate up to 50000 pedestrians in real time.

Keywords: Cellular Automaton; Cellular Automaton Model; Regional Evacuation; Crowd Density; Fundamental Diagram (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20009-0_90

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