EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF MOTOR SCHEMA-BASED CELLULAR AUTOMATON MODEL FOR PEDESTRIAN DYNAMICS

Wenguo Weng (), Hongyong Yuan, Weicheng Fan and Yuji Hasemi ()
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Wenguo Weng: Center for Public Safety Research, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
Hongyong Yuan: Center for Public Safety Research, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
Weicheng Fan: Center for Public Safety Research, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China
Yuji Hasemi: Department of Architecture, Waseda University, Okubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2007, vol. 18, issue 06, 927-936

Abstract: In this paper, experiments were carried out to validate the motor schema-based cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics presented by Wenget al.[Int. J. Mod. Phys. C17, 853 (2006)]. Unidirectional pedestrian flow with different walk velocities is studied by means of simulations and experiments. The lower walk velocity was provided by the young people with special equipment, which made them walk slowly, to imitate the elderly people. Travel time of each pedestrian from start line to goal line with different initial distribution patterns and obstacles in the way was measured to compare with simulation results. The comparison results indicate that the experimental observations can be well reproduced with the motor schema-based cellular automaton model. And the simulation results of the mean travel time agree well with the experimental data.

Keywords: Pedestrian dynamics; cellular automaton model; motor schema-based; 05.65.+b; 45.40.Ln; 84.35.+i (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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