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A pedestrian flow model with stochastic velocities: microscopic and macroscopic approaches

Probability 2019-12-13 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We investigate a stochastic model hierarchy for pedestrian flow. Starting from a microscopic social force model, where the pedestrians switch randomly between the two states stop-or-go, we derive an associated macroscopic model of conservation law type. Therefore we use a kinetic mean-field equation and introduce a new problem-oriented closure function. Numerical experiments are presented to compare the above models and to show their similarities.

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@article{arxiv.1703.09134,
  title  = {A pedestrian flow model with stochastic velocities: microscopic and macroscopic approaches},
  author = {Simone Göttlich and Stephan Knapp and Peter Schillen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09134},
  year   = {2019}
}

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23 pages

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