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In pedestrian dynamics, the internal drive that propels individuals toward their goals is typically captured by a single, fixed parameter, the desired walking speed. This simplification overlooks that motivation fluctuates in response to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-04 Ezel Üsten , Anna Sieben , Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried

Traffic jams on roadways, echo chambers on social media, crowds of moving pedestrians, and opinion dynamics during elections are all complex social systems. These applications may seem disparate, but some of the questions that they motivate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-18 Alexandria Volkening

The mathematical modeling of crowds is complicated by the fact that crowds possess the behavioral ability to develop and adapt moving strategies in response to the context. For example, in emergency situations, people tend to alter their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Daewa Kim , Demetrio Labate , Kamrun Mily , Annalisa Quaini

In animal societies as well as in human crowds, many observed collective behaviours result from self-organized processes based on local interactions among individuals. However, models of crowd dynamics are still lacking a systematic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-30 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Simon Garnier , Anders Johansson , Maud Combe , Guy Theraulaz

This paper proposes a crowd dynamic macroscopic model grounded on microscopic phenomenological observations which are upscaled by means of a formal mathematical procedure. The actual applicability of the model to real world problems is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Luca Bruno , Alessandro Corbetta , Andrea Tosin

In this paper we devise a microscopic (agent-based) mathematical model for reproducing crowd behaviour in a specific scenario: a number of pedestrians, consisting of numerous social groups, flow along a corridor until a gate located at the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Giuseppe G. Amaro , Emiliano Cristiani , Marta Menci

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 paper is devoted to the study of the dynamic optimization of several controlled crowd motion models in the general planar settings, which is an application of a class of optimal control problems involving a general nonconvex sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Tan H. Cao , Nilson Chapagain , Haejoon Lee , Phung Ngoc Thi , Nguyen Nang Thieu

In this paper, we present a computational modeling approach for the dynamics of human crowds, where the spreading of an emotion (specifically fear) has an influence on the pedestrians' behavior. Our approach is based on the methods of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-19 Daewa Kim , Kaylie O'Connell , William Ott , Annalisa Quaini

Experiments with pedestrians revealed that the geometry of the domain, as well as the incentive of pedestrians to reach a target as fast as possible have a strong influence on the overall dynamics. In this paper, we propose and validate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Michael Fischer , Gaspard Jankowiak , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Pedestrian crowds can very realistically be simulated with a social force model which describes the different influences affecting individual pedestrian motion by a few simple force terms. The model is able to reproduce the emergence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Peter Molnar

The purpose of this review paper is to present some recent results on the modeling and control of large systems of agents. We focus on particular applications where the agents are capable of independent actions instead of simply reacting to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Benedetto Piccoli

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

Human crowd motion is mainly driven by self-organized processes based on local interactions among pedestrians. While most studies of crowd behavior consider only interactions among isolated individuals, it turns out that up to 70% of people…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 Mehdi Moussaid , Niriaska Perozo , Simon Garnier , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

In this paper we deal with pedestrian modeling, aiming at simulating crowd behavior in normal and emergency scenarios, including highly congested mass events. We are specifically concerned with a new agent-based, continuous-in-space,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-23 E. Cristiani , M. Menci , A. Malagnino , G. G. Amaro

In the present paper we deal with an optimal control problem related to a model in population dynamics; more precisely, the goal is to modify the behavior of a given density of individuals via another population of agents interacting with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Mattia Bongini , Giuseppe Buttazzo

Following the paradigm set by attraction-repulsion-alignment schemes, a myriad of individual based models have been proposed to calculate the evolution of abstract agents. While the emergent features of many agent systems have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-03 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Pierre Degond

Modeling crowds has many important applications in games and computer animation. Inspired by the emergent following effect in real-life crowd scenarios, in this work, we develop a method for implicitly grouping moving agents. We achieve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiao-Cheng Liao , Wei-Neng Chen , Xiang-Ling Chen , Yi Mei

Crowd movement guidance has been a fascinating problem in various fields, such as easing traffic congestion in unusual events and evacuating people from an emergency-affected area. To grab the reins of crowds, there has been considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Koh Takeuchi , Ryo Nishida , Hisashi Kashima , Masaki Onishi

The aim of this paper is to develop a crowd motion model designed to handle highly packed situations. The model we propose rests on two principles: We first define a spontaneous velocity which corresponds to the velocity each individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-01-09 Bertrand Maury , Juliette Venel