Statistical Analysis of the Panic in the Pedestrian Flow

T. Iizuka
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T. Iizuka: Ehime University, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow ’03, 2005, pp 393-398 from Springer

Abstract: Summary We consider a numerical model of pedestrian movement in a counter flow footway using a cellar automaton model. The enter rate of a pedestrian into the footway is the control parameter in our study. The probability of the panic occurrence is calculated statistically. If the width of footway is large, we find critical behavior of the panic probability which is similar to the phase transition obtained from statistical mechanics. We also consider the asymmetric case where the number of pedestrian moving one direction is different form that of the couter direction.

Keywords: pedestrian flow; cellar automaton model; panic probability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28091-X_38

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