A Cellular Automaton Approach for Lane Formation in Pedestrian Counterflow

Stefan Nowak () and Andreas Schadschneider ()
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Stefan Nowak: Universität zu Köln, Institut für Theoretische Physik
Andreas Schadschneider: Universität zu Köln, Institut für Theoretische Physik

A chapter in Traffic and Granular Flow '11, 2013, pp 149-160 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The formation of lanes is a well known emergent behavior in pedestrian counterflow as well as in some other physical systems. Nevertheless, not much is known quantitatively which is related to the fact that the empirical situation is quite poor. Here we analyze lane formation in a two-dimensional cellular automaton for pedestrian dynamics. To quantify the lane structure, we make use of a laning order parameter which has been used previously to detect lanes in colloidal systems. The main purpose of our work is to determine a phase diagram in dependence on the coupling constants and the particle density. Furthermore, we compare the results of our simulation with experimental data.

Keywords: Lane Formation; Pedestrian Counterflows; Lane Structure; Floor Field; Dynamic Floor Field (DFF) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39669-4_15

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