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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

This article considers execution and analysis of laboratory experiments of pedestrians moving in a quasi-one-dimensional system with periodic boundary conditions. To analyze characteristics of jams in the system we aim to use the whole…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-10 Verena Ziemer , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider

This study presents an initial framework for distinguishing group and single pedestrians based on real-world trajectory data, with the aim of analyzing their differences in space utilization and emergent behavioral patterns. By segmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Amartaivan Sanjjamts , Morita Hiroshi

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

A spreading process can be observed when particular information, substances, or diseases spread through a population over time in social and biological systems. It is widely believed that contact interactions among individual entities play…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-08 Jaeyoung Kwak , Michael H. Lees , Wentong Cai

Pedestrians adjust both speed and stride length when they navigate difficult situations such as tight corners or dense crowds. They try to avoid collisions and to preserve their personal space. State-of-the-art pedestrian motion models…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-03 Isabella von Sivers , Gerta Köster

Pedestrian crowding occurs more frequent. As a result of the increasing pedestrian demand in public space, the limits of pedestrian spaces are of increasing interest. Some research on the maximum demand that can flow through a cross-section…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-21 Dorine C. Duives , Martijn Sparnaaij , Winnie Daamen , Serge P. Hoogendoorn

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

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

We observe body-rotation behavior of pedestrians to avoid others when they are moving in congested situations. In such cases, body orientation often differs from walking direction, i.e., pedestrians step sideways. In this paper, we focused…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-08 Hiroki Yamamoto , Daichi Yanagisawa , Claudio Feliciani , Katsuhiro Nishinari

The relationship between cell density and velocity is often assumed to be negative, reflecting crowding-induced suppression of movement. However, observations across systems reveal a more nuanced picture: while some emphasize contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-27 Hengdong Lu , Tianxiang Ma , Amin Doostmohammadi

Collective human movement is a hallmark of complex systems, exhibiting emergent order across diverse settings, from pedestrian flows to biological collectives. In high-speed scenarios, alignment interactions ensure efficient flow and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-03 Debasish Sarker , Yi Zhang , Lynn K. Perry , Daniel S. Messinger , Chaoming Song

This contribution provides microscopic experimental study of pedestrian motion in front of the bottleneck, explains the high variance of individual travel time by the statistical analysis of trajectories. The analysis shows that this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-08 Marek Bukáček , Pavel Hrabák , Milan Krbálek

In both animal and cell populations, the presence of leaders often underlies the success of collective migration processes, which we characterise by a group maintaining a cohesive configuration that consistently moves toward a target. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-15 Sara Bernardi , Kevin J. Painter

Pedestrian crowds often include social groups, i.e. pedestrians that walk together because of social relationships. They show characteristic configurations and influence the dynamics of the entire crowd. In order to investigate the impact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-04-05 Cornelia von Krüchten , Andreas Schadschneider

Computer-based simulation of pedestrian dynamics reached meaningful results in the last decade, thanks to empirical evidences and acquired knowledge fitting fundamental diagram constraints and space utilization. Moreover, computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Luca Crociani , Daichi Yanagisawa , Giuseppe Vizzari , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Stefania Bandini

We study the influence of selfish vs. polite behaviours on the dynamics of a pedestrian evacuation through a narrow exit. To this end, experiments involving about 80 participants with distinct prescribed behaviours are performed;…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-24 Alexandre Nicolas , Sebastián Bouzat , Marcelo Kuperman

The transition between low and high density phases is a typical feature of systems with social interactions. This contribution focuses on simple evacuation design of one room with one entrance and one exit; four passing-through experiments…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Marek Bukáček , Pavel Hrabák , Milan Krbálek

Low-dimensional, complex systems are often characterized by logarithmically slow dynamics. We study the generic motion of a labeled particle in an ensemble of identical diffusing particles with hardcore interactions in a strongly…

With the rich dynamics studies of single-state processes, the two-state processes attract more and more interests of people, since they are widely observed in complex system and have effective applications in diverse fields, say, foraging…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Xudong Wang , Yao Chen , Weihua Deng