Pedestrian simulations in hexagonal cell local field model

Biao Leng, Jianyuan Wang and Zhang Xiong

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 438, issue C, 532-543

Abstract: Pedestrian dynamics have caused wide concern over the recent years. This paper presents a local field (LF) model based on regular hexagonal cells to simulate pedestrian dynamics in scenarios such as corridors and bottlenecks. In this model, the simulation scenarios are discretized into regular hexagonal cells. The local field is a small region around pedestrian. Each pedestrian will choose his/her target cell according to the situation in his/her local field. Different walking strategies are considered in the simulation in corridor scenario and the fundamental graphs are used to verify this model. Different shapes of exit are also discussed in the bottleneck scenario. The statistics of push effect show that the smooth bottleneck exit may be more safe.

Keywords: Cellular automata; Regular hexagonal cell; Pedestrian dynamics; Local field model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.07.005

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