Modeling and simulating the matching behavior of pedestrian flow at training school during the pickup period after class

Tie-Qiao Tang, Chuan-Zhi Xie, Tao Wang and Jian Zhang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 521, issue C, 649-660

Abstract: Training schools widely exist in China and congestion occurs during the pickup period. However, most researches focus on investigating the pedestrian flow in classroom. In this paper, we study the adult–child matching behavior and each pedestrian’s motion (including child and adult) at a training school during the pickup period. Based on the scenario at the training school, and the features of children’s and adults’ motions, we design three strategies to describe the adult–child matching behavior, and then incorporate the matching behavior into a CA (cellular automaton) model and propose an extended CA model to study each pedestrian’s motion under each strategy during the pickup period. The numerical results indicate that each strategy has great effects on the matching behavior and the evacuation efficiency during the pickup period. The results can help administrators to design effective evacuation strategy at training school during the pickup period (especially when an emergency occurs).

Keywords: Training school; Pedestrian flow; Cellular automaton model; Matching strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437119300627
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:521:y:2019:i:c:p:649-660

DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.01.059

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().