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In this paper we develop a framework for parameter estimation in macroscopic pedestrian models using individual trajectories -- microscopic data. We consider a unidirectional flow of pedestrians in a corridor and assume that the velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Susana N. Gomes , Andrew M. Stuart , Marie-Therese Wolfram

In this paper, we investigate disparities in pedestrian crossing behaviors within static and dynamic crowds through experimental analysis. First, qualitative trajectory observations revealed significant behavioral differences in static and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-19 Jinghui Wang , Yajuan Jiang , Xiaoying Zhang , Fangwei Deng , Wei Lv

The theory of traveling waves and spreading speeds is developed for time-space periodic monotone semiflows with monostable structure. By using traveling waves of the associated Poincar\'e maps in a strong sense, we establish the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Jian Fang , Xiao Yu , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

In this paper, we investigate the stationary profiles of a convection-diffusion model for unidirectional pedestrian flows in domains with a single entrance and exit. The inflow and outflow conditions at both the entrance and exit as well as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Annalisa Iuorio , Gaspard Jankowiak , Peter Szmolyan , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Forecasting pedestrians' future motions is essential for autonomous driving systems to safely navigate in urban areas. However, existing prediction algorithms often overly rely on past observed trajectories and tend to fail around abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Dongxu Guo , Taylor Mordan , Alexandre Alahi

Experiments with pedestrians revealed that the geometry of the domain, as well as the incentive of pedestrians to reach a target as fast as possible have a strong influence on the overall dynamics. In this paper, we propose and validate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Michael Fischer , Gaspard Jankowiak , Marie-Therese Wolfram

This paper examines the IDM microscopic car-following model from a dynamical systems perspective, analyzing the effects of delay on congestion formation. Further, a case of mixed-autonomy is considered by controlling one car with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Trevor McClain , Rahul Bhadani

Understanding the complex behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is a challenge for both science and technology. In particular, obtaining reliable models for crowd dynamics, capable of exhibiting qualitatively and quantitatively the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Luca Bruno , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

We consider several non-local models for traffic flow, including both microscopic ODE models and macroscopic PDE models. The ODE models describe the movement of individual cars, where each driver adjusts the speed according to the road…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Johanna Ridder , Wen Shen

We identify a new type of pattern formation in spatially distributed active systems. We simulate one-dimensional two-component systems with predator-prey local interaction and pursuit-evasion taxis between the components. In a sufficiently…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 V. N. Biktashev , M. A. Tsyganov

The progress of image processing during recent years allows the measurement of pedestrian characteristics on a "microscopic" scale with low costs. However, density and flow are concepts of fluid mechanics defined for the limit of infinitely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Bernhard Steffen , Armin Seyfried

The present paper is devoted to the study of stability, uniqueness and recurrence of generalized traveling waves of reaction-diffusion equations in time heterogeneous media of ignition type, whose existence has been proven by the authors of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

The results of a systematic quantitative validation of PEDFLOW based on the experimental data from FZJ are presented. Unidirectional flow experiments, totaling 28 different combinations with varying entry, corridor and exit widths, were…

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We study an integro-differential equation that describes the slow erosion of granular flow. The equation is a first order non-linear conservation law where the flux function includes an integral term. We show that there exist unique…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-20 Graziano Guerra , Wen Shen

In this article the dynamics of pedestrian streams in four different scenarios are compared empirically to investigate the influence of boundary conditions on it. The Voronoi method, which allows high resolution and small fluctuations of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-28 Jun Zhang , Armin Seyfried

The existence of travelling waves for a model of concentration waves of bacteria is investigated. The model consists in a kinetic equation for the biased motion of cells following a run-and-tumble process, coupled with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Vincent Calvez

In recent years, several approaches for modelling pedestrian dynamics have been proposed and applied e.g. for design of egress routes. However, so far not much attention has been paid to their 'quantitative' validation. This unsatisfactory…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-13 A. Seyfried , M. Boltes , J. Kähler , W. Klingsch , A. Portz , T. Rupprecht , A. Schadschneider , B. Steffen , A. Winkens

We derive analytical formulas for the wake and wave drag of a disturbance moving arbitrarily at the air-water interface. We show that, provided a constant velocity is reached in finite time, the unsteady surface displacement converges to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-05 Lucas Gierczak , Assil Fadle , Maxence Arutkin , Elie Raphaël , Michael Benzaquen

Traffic waves, known also as stop-and-go waves or phantom hams, appear naturally as traffic instabilities, also in confined environments as a ring-road. A multi-population traffic is studied on a ring-road, comprised of drivers with stable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Amaury Hayat , Benedetto Piccoli , Shengquan Xiang

This article deals with the experimental study of pedestrian behaviours in some situations of one-dimensional traffic. Participants were pre-organized in a line, and asked to walk either in a straight line with a fast or slow leader, or to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Cécile Appert-Rolland , Anne-Hélène Olivier , Julien Pettré