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This paper develops a general force-based pedestrian model named CosForce, in which cosine functions are employed to describe asymmetric interactions. These functions implicitly capture the mechanisms of anticipation and reaction. By…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-15 Jinghui Wang , Wei Lv , Shuchao Cao , Chenglin Guo

In this paper we systematically apply the mathematical structures by time-evolving measures developed in a previous work to the macroscopic modeling of pedestrian flows. We propose a discrete-time Eulerian model, in which the space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-02 Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

Random walks and related spatial stochastic models have been used in a range of application areas including animal and plant ecology, infectious disease epidemiology, developmental biology, wound healing, and oncology. Classical random walk…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

The scientific field of traffic engineering encompasses a rich set of mathematical techniques, as well as researchers with entirely different backgrounds. This paper provides an overview of what is currently the state-of-the-art with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Maerivoet , Bart De Moor

We present applications of a cellular automaton approach to pedestrian dynamics introduced in [1,2]. It is shown that the model is able to reproduce collective effects and self-organization phenomena encountered in pedestrian traffic, e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carsten Burstedde , Ansgar Kirchner , Kai Klauck , Andreas Schadschneider , Johannes Zittartz

This paper provides an overview and critical analysis on the modeling and applications of the dynamics of human crowds, where social interactions can have an important influence on the behavioral dynamics of the crowd viewed as a living,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-21 Nicola Bellomo , Livio Gibelli , Nisrine Outada

Crowd movement simulation is crucial for pedestrian safety management and facility design. Data-driven models offer the potential to improve realism and predictive accuracy, but most are developed for a single scenario, limiting their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xuanwen Liang , Jiayu Chen , Eric Wai Ming Lee , Wei Xie

This paper attempts to design an intelligent simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation. For this purpose, the cellular automata(CA) was fully integrated with fuzzy logic, the kth nearest neighbors (KNN), and some statistical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Danial A. Muhammed , Soran A. M. Saeed , Tarik A. Rashid

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 Social Force Model of pedestrian dynamics is formulated in a way that a) most of its parameters do not have an immediate interpretation, b) often one single parameter has an impact on many aspects of walking behavior and c) a certain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-03 Tobias Kretz , Jochen Lohmiller , Peter Sukennik

Experimental results for congested pedestrian traffic are presented. For data analysis we apply a method providing measurements on an individual scale. The resulting velocity-density relation shows a coexistence of moving and stopping…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-06-18 A. Seyfried , A. Portz , A. Schadschneider

Standard definitions of the density exhibit large fluctuations when the size of the measurement area is comparable with the size of a pedestrian. An alternative measurement method exists where a personal space, calculated through the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-03-30 Jack Liddle , Armin Seyfried , Bernhard Steffen

Understanding pattern formation in crossing pedestrian flows is essential for analyzing and managing high-density crowd dynamics in urban environments. This study presents two complementary methodological approaches to detect and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-24 Piotr Nyczka , Pratik Mullick

For the planning of large pedestrian facilities, the movement of pedestrians in various situations has to be modelled. Many tools for pedestrian planning are based on cellular automata (CA), discrete in space and time, some use self driven…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-04 B. Steffen , A. Seyfried

Individual-based models of chemical or biological dynamics usually consider individual entities diffusing in space and performing a birth-death type dynamics. In this work we study the properties of a model in this class where the birth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emilio Hernandez-Garcia , Cristobal Lopez

We discuss the control of a human crowd whose dynamics is governed by a regularized version of Hughes' model, cf. Hughes: A continuum theory for the flow of pedestrians. Transportation research part B: methodological, 36 (2002). We assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Roland Herzog , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , Max Winkler

We introduce a rigorous framework for stochastic cell transmission models for general traffic networks. The performance of traffic systems is evaluated based on preference functionals and acceptable designs. The numerical implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zachary Feinstein , Marcel Kleiber , Stefan Weber

Pedestrian dynamics models the walking movement of individuals in a crowd. It has recently been used in the analysis of procedures to reduce the risk of disease spread in airplanes, relying on the SPED model. This is a social force model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-01 Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani , Tasvirul Islam , Ashok Srinivasan , Sirish Namilae

A complete overview of the surrounding vehicle environment is important for driver assistance systems and highly autonomous driving. Fusing results of multiple sensor types like camera, radar and lidar is crucial for increasing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Markus Horn , Ole Schumann , Markus Hahn , Jürgen Dickmann , Klaus Dietmayer

The motion of pedestrian crowds (e.g. for simulation of an evacuation situation) can be modeled as a multi-body system of self driven particles with repulsive interaction. We use a few simple situations to determine the simplest allowed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-04 B. Steffen