Experimental Investigation of Pedestrian Queuing Behaviour

Jiahua Zhang (), Miho Iryo-Asano () and Charitha Dias ()
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Jiahua Zhang: The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering
Miho Iryo-Asano: Nagoya University, Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture
Charitha Dias: The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow '17, 2019, pp 177-185 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One key aspect of pedestrian dynamics is the pedestrian queuing behaviour particularly in front of bottlenecks. As previous studies have highlighted, features of pedestrian queues in front of different types of bottlenecks are considerably dissimilar. Insights into similarities and differences of pedestrian queuing behaviour for typical bottlenecks can be important for the planning and design of public walking space. However, no sufficient empirical studies have been carried out so far to examine the diversity of pedestrian queuing behaviour. In this study, a series of experiments were performed to explore the characteristics of pedestrian queue formations under different conditions. As the results suggest, pedestrians tend to form organized queues before bottlenecks with a clear pass control (e.g., service counters where only one person can be served once). Wider bottlenecks, capacity reductions and low service rates were found to motivate pedestrians to merge or overtake in the upstream of the bottleneck.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11440-4_21

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