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In this work a physical modelling framework is presented, describing the intelligent, non-local, and anisotropic behaviour of pedestrians. Its phenomenological basics and constitutive elements are detailed, and a qualitative analysis is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Luca Bruno , Andrea Tosin , Paolo Tricerri , Fiammetta Venuti

This article concerns an optimal crowd motion control problem in which the crowd features a structure given by its organization into N groups (participants) each one spatially confined in a set. The overall optimal control problem consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Tan H. Cao , Nathalie T. Khalil , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Fernando Lobo Pereira

We study the hydrodynamic description of collective dynamics driven by velocity {\it alignment}. It is known that such Euler alignment systems must flock towards a limiting ``flocking'' velocity, provided their solutions remain globally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Eitan Tadmor

In this paper a new multiscale modeling technique is proposed. It relies on a recently introduced measure-theoretic approach, which allows to manage the microscopic and the macroscopic scale under a unique framework. In the resulting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

Pedestrians are often encountered walking in the company of some social relations, rather than alone. The social groups thus formed, in variable proportions depending on the context, are not randomly organised but exhibit distinct features,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-29 Alexandre Nicolas , Fadratul Hafinaz

This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion. Moreover, this article focusses on the dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-09 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

A framework is proposed in this paper that is used to segment flow of dense crowds. The flow field that is generated by the movement in the crowd is treated just like an aperiodic dynamic system. On this flow field a grid of particles is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Javairia Nazir , Mehreen Sirshar

We consider a kinetic theory approach to model the evacuation of a crowd from bounded domains. The interactions of a person with other pedestrians and the environment, which includes walls, exits, and obstacles, are modeled by using tools…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Daewa Kim , Annalisa Quaini

Here we present the entropic dynamics formalism for networks. That is, a framework for the dynamics of graphs meant to represent a network derived from the principle of maximum entropy and the rate of transition is obtained taking into…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-29 Felipe Xavier Costa , Pedro Pessoa

In this paper we are concerned with multiscale modeling, control, and simulation of self-organizing agents leaving an unknown area under limited visibility, with special emphasis on crowds. We first introduce a new microscopic model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Giacomo Albi , Mattia Bongini , Emiliano Cristiani , Dante Kalise

We focus on robot navigation in crowded environments. The challenge of predicting the motion of a crowd around a robot makes it hard to ensure human safety and comfort. Recent approaches often employ end-to-end techniques for robot control…

In recent years modelling crowd and evacuation dynamics has become very important, with increasing huge numbers of people gathering around the world for many reasons and events. The fact that our global population grows dramatically every…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-28 Mohamed H. Dridi

In fluid mechanics, dimensionless numbers like the Reynolds number help classify flows. We argue that such a classification is also relevant for crowd flows by putting forward the dimensionless Intrusion and Avoidance numbers.Using an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jakob Cordes , Andreas Schadschneider , Alexandre Nicolas

Understanding and modeling the dynamics of pedestrian crowds can help with designing and increasing the safety of civil facilities. A key feature of crowds is its intrinsic stochasticity, appearing even under very diluted conditions, due to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-22 Alessandro Corbetta , Chung-min Lee , Roberto Benzi , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

Bridging the microscopic and macroscopic modelling scales in crowd dynamics constitutes an open challenge for systematic numerical analysis, optimization, and control. Here, we propose a manifold-informed machine learning approach to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hector Vargas Alvarez , Dimitrios G. Patsatzis , Lucia Russo , Ioannis Kevrekidis , Constantinos Siettos

Large crowds exhibit intricate behaviors and significant emergent properties, yet existing crowd simulation systems often lack behavioral diversity, resulting in homogeneous simulation outcomes. To address this limitation, we propose…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yihao Li , Junyu Liu , Xiaoyu Guan , Hanming Hou , Tianyu Huang

Collective motion and self-organization of interacting particles, such as flocking and swarming, can be viewed as nonequilibrium analogues of collective dynamics in gases. Motivated by the analogy between gas mixtures and Cucker--Smale…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Ziming Bian , Seung-Yeal Ha , Tommaso Ruggeri , Qinghua Xiao

People tend to walk in groups, and interactions with those groups have a significant impact on crowd behavior and pedestrian traffic dynamics. Social norms can be seen as unwritten rules regulating people interactions in social settings.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-31 Saleh Albeaik , Faisal Alsallum , Mohamad Alrished

The simulation of pedestrian crowd that reflects reality is a major challenge for researches. Several crowd simulation models have been proposed such as cellular automata model, agent-based model, fluid dynamic model, etc. It is important…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Wonho Kang , Youngnam Han

Pedestrians in crowds frequently move as part of small groups, constituting up to 70% of individuals. Dyads (groups of two) are the most frequent. Understanding quantitatively the dynamics of dyads walking in crowds is therefore an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Chiel van der Laan , Alessandro Corbetta