Simulation of competitive egress behavior: comparison with aircraft evacuation data

Ansgar Kirchner, Hubert Klüpfel, Katsuhiro Nishinari, Andreas Schadschneider and Michael Schreckenberg

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 324, issue 3, 689-697

Abstract: We report new results obtained using cellular automata for pedestrian dynamics with friction. Monte-Carlo simulations of evacuation processes are compared with experimental results on competitive behavior in emergency egress from an aircraft. In the model, the recently introduced concept of a friction parameter μ is used to distinguish between competitive and cooperative movement. However, an additional influence in competition is increased walking speed. Empirical results show that a critical door width wc separates two regimes: for wwc it leads to a decrease. This result is reproduced in the simulation only if both influences, walking speed and friction, are taken into account.

Keywords: Non-equilibrium physics; Cellular automata; Pedestrian dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00076-1

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