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Moving in a crowd: human perception as a multiscale process

Physics and Society 2016-06-23 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The strategic behaviour of pedestrians is largely determined by how they perceive and react to neighbouring people. This issue is addressed in this paper by a model which combines, in a time and space-dependent way, discrete and continuous effects of pedestrian interactions. Numerical simulations and qualitative analysis suggest that human perception, and its impact on crowd dynamics, can be effectively modelled as a multiscale process based on a dual microscopic/macroscopic representation of groups of agents.

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@article{arxiv.1502.01375,
  title  = {Moving in a crowd: human perception as a multiscale process},
  author = {Annachiara Colombi and Marco Scianna and Andrea Tosin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01375},
  year   = {2016}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures

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