Optimizing Pedestrian Environments with Evolutionary Strategies

Marijn Swenne () and Thomas Bäck ()
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Marijn Swenne: Leiden University
Thomas Bäck: Leiden University

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012, 2014, pp 1331-1340 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The environment of pedestrians has a big influence on their movement efficiency. Poorly designed environments can lead to high pedestrian densities which in turn increases the risk of injury, or in the case of egress, increases tardiness. A common approach is to have an expert design an environment and test it with a simulator. We propose a method to design a pedestrian environment by using pedestrian simulation in combination with optimization by means of evolutionary strategies. The results demonstrate that optimized environment layouts can improve pedestrian throughput in comparison with basic layouts designed by humans.

Keywords: Pedestrian; Environment; Optimization; Evolutionary strategy; Simulator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_110

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