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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 study of crowd dynamics is interesting because of the various self-organization phenomena resulting from the interactions of many pedestrians, which may improve or obstruct their flow. Besides formation of lanes of uniform walking…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-28 Anders Johansson , Dirk Helbing , Habib Z. Al-Abideen , Salim Al-Bosta

Pedestrian behavior has much more complicated characteristics in a dense crowd and thus attracts the widespread interest of scientists and engineers. However, even successful modeling approaches such as pedestrian models based on particle…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-04-11 Qi Xu , Baohua Mao , Xujie Feng , Jia Feng

This contribution presents experimental study of two-dimensional pedestrian flow with the aim to capture the pedestrian behaviour within the cluster formed in front of the bottleneck. Two experiments of passing through a room with one…

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

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

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

These lecture notes cover the statics and glassy dynamics of granular media. Most of the lectures were in fact devoted to `force propagation' models. We discuss the experimental and theoretical motivations for these approaches, and their…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J-P Bouchaud

Scramble intersections stand as compelling examples of complex systems, shedding light on the pressing challenge of urban mobility. In this paper, we introduce a model aimed at unraveling the statistical intricacies of pedestrian crossing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-04 Eduardo V. Stock , Roberto da Silva

With the increasing size and frequency of mass events, the study of crowd disasters and the simulation of pedestrian flows have become important research areas. Yet, even successful modeling approaches such as those inspired by Newtonian…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Mehdi Moussaid , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

In human crowds as well as in many animal societies, local interactions among individuals often give rise to self-organized collective organizations that offer functional benefits to the group. For instance, flows of pedestrians moving in…

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

Studies related to crowds of pedestrians, both those of theoretical nature and application oriented ones, have generally focused on either the analysis or the synthesis of the phenomena related to the interplay between individual…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Stefania Bandini , Andrea Gorrini , Giuseppe Vizzari

In this work the results of a bottleneck experiment with pedestrians are presented in the form of total times, fluxes, specific fluxes, and time gaps. A main aim was to find the dependence of these values from the bottleneck width. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-02-10 Tobias Kretz , Anna Grünebohm , Michael Schreckenberg

Pedestrians in crowds frequently move as part of small groups, constituting up to 70% of individuals. Dyads (groups of two) are the most frequent. Understanding quantitatively the dynamics of dyads walking in crowds is therefore an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Chiel van der Laan , Alessandro Corbetta

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

Pedestrian groups are commonly found in crowds but research on their social aspects is comparatively lacking. To fill that void in literature, we study the dynamics of collision avoidance between pedestrian groups (in particular dyads) and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-31 Adrien Gregorj , Zeynep Yücel , Francesco Zanlungo , Claudio Feliciani , Takayuki Kanda

In emergency egress crowd behavior critically affects egress efficiency and public safety. By integrating psychological principles to Newtonian motion of crowd, a fluid-based equation is derived in this paper to explore how energy in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-08 Peng N. Wang , Peter B. Luh

The simulation of pedestrian crowd that reflects reality is a major challenge for researches. Several crowd simulation models have been proposed such as cellular automata model, agent-based model, fluid dynamic model, etc. It is important…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Wonho Kang , Youngnam Han

Granular segregation is ubiquitous in industrial, geological or daily-life context, but there is still no unifying theoretical approach. In this review, we examine two examples of granular segregation -- shallow rapid flows and rotating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Matthias Schröter , Karen E. Daniels

Visual clutter affects our ability to see: objects that would be identifiable on their own, may become unrecognizable when presented close together ("crowding") -- but the psychophysical characteristics of crowding have resisted…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-06 A Rodriguez , R Granger