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This article considers a mean field game model inspired by crowd motion models in which agents aim at reaching a given target set and wish to minimize a cost consisting of an individual running cost, an individual cost depending on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Guilherme Mazanti , Laurent Pfeiffer , Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand

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

We derive a hierarchy of kinetic and macroscopic models from a noisy variant of the heuristic behavioral Individual-Based Model of Moussaid et al, PNAS 2011, where the pedestrians are supposed to have constant speeds. This IBM supposes that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Pierre Degond , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Mehdi Moussaid , Julien Pettré , Guy Theraulaz

In this paper, we consider a first-order deterministic mean field game model inspired by crowd motion in which agents moving in a given domain aim to reach a given target set in minimal time. To model interaction between agents, we assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Saeed Sadeghi Arjmand , Guilherme Mazanti

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

Recent advances in modeling and control of crowds of pedestrians are briefly surveyed in this paper. Possibilities of applying fractional calculus in the modeling of crowd of pedestrians have been shortly reviewed and discussed from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Ke-cai Cao , YangQuan Chen , Dan Stuart , Dong Yue

This article is on collective phenomena in pedestrian dynamics during the assembling and dispersal phases of gatherings. To date pedestrian dynamics have been primarily studied in the natural and engineering sciences. Pedestrians are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-05 Anna Sieben , Jette Schumann , Armin Seyfried

Dense pedestrian crowds may pose significant safety risks, yet their underlying dynamics remain insufficiently understood to reliably prevent accidents. In these environments, physical interactions and contact forces fundamentally shape the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-12 Thomas Chatagnon , Antoine Tordeux , Mohcine Chraibi

We conducted a simple experiment in which one pedestrian passed through a crowded area and measured the body-rotational angular velocity with commercial tablets. Then, we developed a new method for predicting crowd density by applying the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-20 Koki Nagao , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

For two classes of Mean Field Game systems we study the convergence of solutions as the interest rate in the cost functional becomes very large, modeling agents caring only about a very short time-horizon, and the cost of the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Martino Bardi , Pierre Cardaliaguet

There are different physics-based approaches for analysing pedestrian movement. Physics-based methods like statistical mechanics-based models apply the laws of physics to drive equations for analysing crowd behaviour. This paper will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-15 Amir Ghorbani

In this paper, a simple 1D crowd model is proposed, which aim is to properly describe the crowd-flow phenomena occurring when pedestrians walk on a flexible footbridge. The crowd is assumed to behave like a continuous compressible fluid and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-13 Joanna Bodgi , Silvano Erlicher , Pierre Argoul

In human crowds, interactions among individuals give rise to a variety of self-organized collective motions that help the group to effectively solve the problem of coordination. However, it is still not known exactly how humans adjust their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-25 Asja Jelić , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Samuel Lemercier , Julien Pettré

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 this paper we present a numerical study of some variations of the Hughes model for pedestrian flow under different types of congestion effects. The general model consists of a coupled non-linear PDE system involving an eikonal equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Elisabetta Carlini , Adriano Festa , Francisco J. Silva

A series of accidents caused by crowd within the last decades evoked a lot of scientific interest in modeling the movement of pedestrian crowds. Based on discrete element method, a granular dynamic model, in which human body is simplified…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-19 Peng Lin , Jian Ma , Siuming Lo

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

The mean-field analysis of a multi-population agent-based model is performed. The model couples a particle dynamics driven by a nonlocal velocity with a Markow-type jump process on the probability that each agent has of belonging to a given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

Routing choices of walking pedestrians in geometrically complex environments are regulated by the interplay of a multitude of factors such as local crowding, (estimated) time to destination, (perceived) comfort. As individual choices…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-03 Alessandro Gabbana , Federico Toschi , Philip Ross , Antal Haans , Alessandro Corbetta

A mean-field selective optimal control problem of multipopulation dynamics via transient leadership is considered. The agents in the system are described by their spatial position and their probability of belonging to a certain population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Giacomo Albi , Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino