Simulation of evacuation processes using a bionics-inspired cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics

Ansgar Kirchner and Andreas Schadschneider

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 312, issue 1, 260-276

Abstract: We present simulations of evacuation processes using a recently introduced cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics. This model applies a bionics approach to describe the interaction between the pedestrians using ideas from chemotaxis. Here we study a rather simple situation, namely the evacuation from a large room with one or two doors. It is shown that the variation of the model parameters allows to describe different types of behaviour, from regular to panic. We find a non-monotonic dependence of the evacuation times on the coupling constants. These times depend on the strength of the herding behaviour, with minimal evacuation times for some intermediate values of the couplings, i.e., a proper combination of herding and use of knowledge about the shortest way to the exit.

Keywords: Cellular automata; Non-equilibrium physics; Pedestrian dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00857-9

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