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Collective movement is observed widely in nature, where individuals interact locally to produce globally ordered, coherent motion. In typical models of collective motion, each individual takes the average direction of multiple neighbors,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-23 Yogesh Kumar KC , Arshed Nabeel , Srikanth Iyer , Vishwesha Guttal

Pedestrian routing choices play a crucial role in shaping collective crowd dynamics, yet the influence of interactions among unfamiliar individuals remains poorly understood. In this study, we analyze real-world pedestrian behavior at a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-25 Ziqi Wang , Alessandro Gabbana , Federico Toschi

This work presents a microscopic model to describe pedestrian flows based on the social force theory. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) developing a realistic model that can be used as a tool for designing pedestrian-friendly…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Péter Molnár

Understanding the collective dynamics of crowd movements during stressful emergency situations is central to reducing the risk of deadly crowd disasters. Yet, their systematic experimental study remains a challenging open problem due to…

Traffic congestion is usually observed at the upper streams of bottlenecks such as tunnels. Congestion appears as stop-and-go waves and high density uniform flow. We perform simulations of traffic flow with a bottleneck using the coupled…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Syohei Yamamoto , Yasuhiro Hieida , Shin-ichi Tadaki

We show that keeping a constant lower limit on the net-time headway is the key mechanism behind the dynamics of pedestrian streams. There is a large variety in flow and speed as functions of density for empirical data of pedestrian streams,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-14 Anders Johansson

Recently we proposed an extension to the traffic model of Aw, Rascle and Greenberg. The extended traffic model can be written as a hyperbolic system of balance laws and numerically reproduces the reverse $\lambda$ shape of the fundamental…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Florian Siebel , Wolfram Mauser

Staircases play an essential role in crowd dynamics, allowing pedestrians to flow across large multi-level public facilities such as transportation hubs, and office buildings. Achieving a robust understanding of pedestrian behavior in these…

We investigate a stochastic model hierarchy for pedestrian flow. Starting from a microscopic social force model, where the pedestrians switch randomly between the two states stop-or-go, we derive an associated macroscopic model of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Simone Göttlich , Stephan Knapp , Peter Schillen

A simple model to handle the flow of people in emergency evacuation situations is considered: at every point x, the velocity U(x) that individuals at x would like to realize is given. Yet, the incompressibility constraint prevents this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-04 Bertrand Maury , Aude Roudneff-Chupin , Filippo Santambrogio

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 modelling of pedestrian dynamics we treat persons as self-driven objects moving in a continuous space. On the basis of a modified social force model we qualitatively analyze the influence of various approaches for the interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Armin Seyfried , Bernhard Steffen , Thomas Lippert

A multi--cluster model of traffic flow is studied, in which the motion of cars is described by a stochastic master equation. Assuming that the escape rate from a cluster depends only on the cluster size, the dynamics of the model is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Kaupuzs , R. Mahnke , R. J. Harris

Quantitatively modeling the trajectories and behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is an outstanding fundamental challenge deeply connected with the physics of flowing active matter, from a scientific point of view, and having societal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-05 Alessandro Corbetta , Lars Schilders , Federico Toschi

Oscillatory flow patterns have been observed in many different driven many-particle systems. The conventional assumption is that the reason for emergent oscillations in opposing flows is an increased efficiency (throughput). In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rui Jiang , Dirk Helbing , Pradyumn Kumar Shukla , Qing-Song Wu

We investigate non-equilibrium lane formation in a generic model of a fluid with attractive interactions, that is, a two-dimensional Lennard-Jones (LJ) fluid composed of two particle species driven in opposite directions. Performing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-11 C. W. Wächtler , F. Kogler , S. H. L. Klapp

Density fluctuations in traffic current are studied by computer simulations using the deterministic coupled map lattice model on a closed single-lane circuit. By calculating a power spectral density of temporal density fluctuations at a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Yukawa , M. Kikuchi

Lane formation in bidirectional pedestrian streams is based on a stimulus-response mechanism and strategies of navigation in a fast-changing environment. Although microscopic models that only guarantee volume exclusion can qualitatively…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-25 Qiancheng Xu , Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried

We study completely asymmetric 2-channel exclusion processes in 1 dimension. It describes a two-way traffic flow with cars moving in opposite directions. The interchannel interaction makes cars slow down in the vicinity of approaching cars…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. -W. Lee , V. Popkov , D. Kim

We analyse the flow curves of a two-dimensional assembly of granular particles which are interacting via frictional contact forces. For packing fractions slightly below jamming, the fluid undergoes a large scale instability, implying a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Shibu Saw , Mathias Grob , Annette Zippelius , Claus Heussinger