Empirical results for pedestrian dynamics and their implications for modeling

Andreas Schadschneider; Armin Seyfried; Andreas Schadschneider; Armin Seyfried

doi:10.3934/nhm.2011.6.545

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

2011, Volume 6, Issue 3: 545-560. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2011.6.545

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Empirical results for pedestrian dynamics and their implications for modeling

Andreas Schadschneider ^{1
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Armin Seyfried ^{2
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1.
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, 50937 Köln
2.
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich

Received: 01 December 2010 Revised: 01 May 2011
Primary: 90B20; 62-07; Secondary: 91C05,60-02.

The current status of empirical results for pedestrian dynamics is reviewd. Suprisingly even for basic quantities like the flow-density relation there is currently no consensus since the results obtained in various empirical and experimental studies deviate substantially. We report results from recent large-scale experiments for pedestrian flow in simple scenarios like long corridors and bottlenecks which have been performed under controlled laboratory conditions that are easily reproducible. Finally the implications of the unsatisfactory empirical situation for the modeling of pedestrian dynamics is discussed.
- Pedestrian dynamics,
- fundamental diagram,
- bottleneck,
- statistical analysis
Citation: Andreas Schadschneider, Armin Seyfried. Empirical results for pedestrian dynamics and their implications for modeling[J]. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2011, 6(3): 545-560. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2011.6.545

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Abstract

The current status of empirical results for pedestrian dynamics is reviewd. Suprisingly even for basic quantities like the flow-density relation there is currently no consensus since the results obtained in various empirical and experimental studies deviate substantially. We report results from recent large-scale experiments for pedestrian flow in simple scenarios like long corridors and bottlenecks which have been performed under controlled laboratory conditions that are easily reproducible. Finally the implications of the unsatisfactory empirical situation for the modeling of pedestrian dynamics is discussed.

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