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We propose a method to procedurally generate a familiar yet complex human artifact: the city. We are not trying to reproduce existing cities, but to generate artificial cities that are convincing and plausible by capturing developmental…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Thomas Lechner , Ben Watson , Uri Wilensky , Martin Felsen

Distance control in many-particle systems is a fundamental problem in nature. This becomes particularly relevant in systems of active agents, which can sense their environment and react by adjusting their direction of motion. We employ…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Rajendra Singh Negi , Priyanka Iyer , Gerhard Gompper

Dense human flow has been a concern for the safety of public events for a long time. Macroscopic pedestrian models, which are mainly based on fluid dynamics, are often used to simulate huge crowds due to their low computational costs…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-24 Daniel H. Biedermann , Peter M. Kielar , Quirin Aumann , Carlos M. Osorio , Celeste T. W. Lai

In this paper we introduce a simple Monte Carlo method for simulating the dynamics of a crowd. Within our model a collection of hard-disk agents is subjected to a series of two-stage steps, implying (i) the displacement of one specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Francesco Piazza

A simulation model for the dynamic behaviour of pedestrian crowds is mathematically formulated in terms of a social force model, that means, pedestrians behave in a way as if they would be subject to an acceleration force and to repulsive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Helbing , P. Molnar , F. Schweitzer

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

Modeling and simulation of pedestrian behavior is used in applications such as planning large buildings, disaster management, or urban planning. Realistically simulating pedestrian behavior is challenging, due to the complexity of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Fatema Tuj Johora , Philipp Kraus , Jörg P. Müller

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

An agent-based model (ABM) for simulating flood-pedestrian interaction is augmented to particularly explore more realistic responses of evacuating pedestrians during flooding. Pedestrian agents within the ABM follow navigation rules of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Shirvani , Georges Kesserwani , Paul Richmond

In this paper, we present a microscopic agent-based pedestrian behavior model Intend-Wait-Cross. The model is comprised of rules representing behaviors of pedestrians as a series of decisions that depend on their individual characteristics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Amir Rasouli , Iuliia Kotseruba

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

In this paper we propose a novel macroscopic (fluid dynamics) model for describing pedestrian flow in low and high density regimes. The model is characterized by the fact that the maximal density reachable by the crowd - usually a fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Laura Bartoli , Simone Cacace , Emiliano Cristiani , Roberto Ferretti

Motion planning in uncertain environments like complex urban areas is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The aim of our research is to investigate how AVs can navigate crowded, unpredictable scenarios with multiple pedestrians…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Korbinian Moller , Truls Nyberg , Jana Tumova , Johannes Betz

The proposed stochastic model for pedestrian dynamics is based on existing approaches using cellular automata, combined with substantial extensions, to compensate the deficiencies resulting of the discrete grid structure. This agent motion…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-01 Michael Schultz

This paper presents a new simulator for dynamic modelling of interactions between flooding and people in crowded areas. The simulator is developed in FLAMEGPU (a Flexible Large scale Agent-based Modelling Environment for the GPU), which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-31 Mohammad Shirvani , Georges Kesserwani , Paul Richmond

Crowd simulation is a central topic in several fields including graphics. To achieve high-fidelity simulations, data has been increasingly relied upon for analysis and simulation guidance. However, the information in real-world data is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feixiang He , Yuanhang Xiang , Xi Zhao , He Wang

In the event of a disaster, saving human lives is of utmost importance. For developing proper evacuation procedures and guidance systems, behavioural data on how people respond during panic and stress is crucial. In the absence of real…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Rohit K. Dubey , Samuel S. Sohn , Christoph Hoelscher , Mubbasir Kapadia

In this paper we investigate numerically the model for pedestrian traffic proposed in [B.Andreianov, C.Donadello, M.D.Rosini, Crowd dynamics and conservation laws with nonlocal constraints and capacity drop, Mathematical Models and Methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-11 Boris Andreianov , Carlotta Donadello , Ulrich Razafison , Massimiliano Daniele Rosini

In this paper, we present a novel method to recognize the types of crowd movement from crowd trajectories using agent-based motion models (AMMs). Our idea is to apply a number of AMMs, referred to as exemplar-AMMs, to describe the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Wenxi Liu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Xiaogang Wang , Dinesh Manocha

In shared space environments, urban space is shared among different types of road users, who frequently interact with each other to negotiate priority and coordinate their trajectories. Instead of traffic rules, interactions among them are…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Suhair Ahmed , Fatema T. Johora , Jörg P. Müller