Pedestrian Group Behavior in a Cellular Automaton

Michael Seitz (), Gerta Köster () and Alexander Pfaffinger ()
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Michael Seitz: University of Applied Sciences
Gerta Köster: University of Applied Sciences
Alexander Pfaffinger: Siemens AG Corporate Technology

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012, 2014, pp 807-814 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The study of crowd movement is very important for planning mass events and evacuations. Although many potentially critical incidents are hardly predictable, others like clogging, can be anticipated. Studies have shown that pedestrians in social groups frequently contribute the biggest part to crowds, and that these groups have a significant impact on crowd movement. Furthermore social cooperative behaviour does not stop in emergency situations, but continues or even gets stronger. We employ a cellular automaton with attractive and repulsive potentials for the simulation of individual pedestrians. Then we explain how to integrate a concise model for social groups suitable for the basic modelling techniques. Further aspects of group behavior are discussed, namely large groups and the behavior after a group separation, and we propose a model for these. These investigations lead us to the conclusion that there is a growing need of agent based modelling when facing advanced aspects of pedestrian crowd behavior.

Keywords: Social Group; Cellular Automaton; Attractive Potential; Crowd Behavior; Crowd Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_67

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