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CarPed -- A Hybrid and Macroscopic Traffic and Pedestrian Simulator

Multiagent Systems 2016-01-24 v1

Abstract

Dense human flow has been a concern for the safety of public events for a long time. Macroscopic pedestrian models, which are mainly based on fluid dynamics, are often used to simulate huge crowds due to their low computational costs (Columbo & Rosini 2005). Similar approaches are used in the field of traffic simulations (Lighthill & Whitham 1955). A combined macroscopic simulation of vehicles and pedestrians is extremely helpful for all-encompassing traffic control. Therefore, we developed a hybrid model that contains networks for vehicular traffic and human flow. This comprehensive model supports concurrent multi-modal simulations of traffic and pedestrians.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00053,
  title  = {CarPed -- A Hybrid and Macroscopic Traffic and Pedestrian Simulator},
  author = {Daniel H. Biedermann and Peter M. Kielar and Quirin Aumann and Carlos M. Osorio and Celeste T. W. Lai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00053},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages. In: Proceedings of the 27th Forum Bauinformatik, Aachen, Germany, 2015