The effect of escape signs on the pedestrians evacuation

Peijie Ma, Yanqun Jiang, Junfang Zhu and Bokui Chen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 534, issue C

Abstract: Pedestrian flow has been being focused since last decade to reveal the universal laws of the crowd behaviors. In this study, the view radius of the Vicsek model is introduced into the social force model which is used to simulate the behaviors of the crowds. We investigate the pedestrians’ getting outside of a hall by our model and study the effect of the escape signs. A sign that points to the exit directions and helps pedestrians’ evacuation.The numerical results show that there exist the optimal positions to place the signs, if the view radius is between 5m and 10m. With the view radius decreasing, the optimal positions of the escape signs would get close to the exit. Also the positions of the escape signs hardly change when the number of pedestrians changes.

Keywords: Social force model; Collective motion; View radius (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.121133

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