Experimental and modeling study on relation of pedestrian step length and frequency under different headways

Guang Zeng, Shuchao Cao, Chi Liu and Weiguo Song

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 500, issue C, 237-248

Abstract: It is important to study pedestrian stepping behavior and characteristics for facility design and pedestrian flow study due to pedestrians’ bipedal movement. In this paper, data of steps are extracted based on trajectories of pedestrians from a single-file experiment. It is found that step length and step frequency will decrease 75% and 33%, respectively, when global density increases from 0.46 ped/m to 2.28 ped/m. With the increment of headway, they will first increase and then remain constant when the headway is beyond 1.16 m and 0.91 m, respectively. Step length and frequency under different headways can be described well by normal distributions. Meanwhile, relationships between step length and frequency under different headways exist. Step frequency decreases with the increment of step length. However, the decrease tendencies depend on headways as a whole. And there are two decrease tendencies: when the headway is between about 0.6 m and 1.0 m, the decrease rate of the step frequency will increase with the increment of step length; while it will decrease when the headway is beyond about 1.0 m and below about 0.6 m. A model is built based on the experiment results. In fundamental diagrams, the results of simulation agree well with those of experiment. The study can be helpful for understanding pedestrian stepping behavior and designing public facilities.

Keywords: Step length; Step frequency; Headway; Relation of step length and frequency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.02.095

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