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The statistical properties of human mobility have been studied in the framework of complex systems physics. Taking advantage from the new datasets made available by the information and communication technologies, the distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-03 Chiara Mizzi , Alessandro Fabbri , Giulio Colombini , Flavio Bertini , Armando Bazzani

In the realm of target tracking, performance evaluation plays a pivotal role in the design, comparison, and analytics of trackers. Compared with the traditional trajectory composed of a set of point-estimates obtained by a tracker in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Tiancheng Li , Yan Song , Hongqi Fan , Jingdong Chen

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

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

Pedestrian accessibility is an important factor in urban transport and land use policy and critical for creating healthy, sustainable cities. Developing and evaluating indicators measuring inequalities in pedestrian accessibility can help…

This article deals with the experimental study of pedestrian behaviours in some situations of one-dimensional traffic. Participants were pre-organized in a line, and asked to walk either in a straight line with a fast or slow leader, or to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Cécile Appert-Rolland , Anne-Hélène Olivier , Julien Pettré

Spacetimes have conventionally been described by a global Lorentzian metric on a differentiable four-manifold. Herein we explore the possibility of spacetimes defined by a connection, which is locally but not globally Levi-Civita. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-21 Richard Atkins

Every spacetime is defined by its metric, the mathematical object which further defines the spacetime curvature. From the relativity principle, we have the freedom to choose which coordinate system to write our metric in. Some coordinate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-22 Joshua Baines

We studied simple random-walk models with asymmetric time delays. Stochastic simulations were performed for hyperbolic-tangent fitness functions and to obtain analytical results we approximated them by step functions. A novel behavior has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-30 Kamil Łopuszański , Jacek Miękisz

The study of animal movement is challenging because it is a process modulated by many factors acting at different spatial and temporal scales. Several models have been proposed which differ primarily in the temporal conceptualization,…

The ubiquity of personal digital devices offers unprecedented opportunities to study human behavior. Current state-of-the-art methods quantify physical activity using 'activity counts,' a measure which overlooks specific types of physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Marcin Straczkiewicz , Emily J. Huang , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Walking and cycling, commonly referred to as active travel, have become integral components of modern transport planning. Recently, there has been growing recognition of the substantial role that active travel can play in making cities more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-06 Ivann Schlosser , Valentina Marín Maureira , Richard Milton , Elsa Arcaute , Michael Batty

Eye movement data are outputs of an analyser tracking the gaze when a person is inspecting a scene. These kind of data are of increasing importance in scientific research as well as in applications, e.g. in marketing and man-machine…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-13 Antti Penttinen , Anna-Kaisa Ylitalo

Similarity search is an important problem in information retrieval. This similarity is based on a distance. Symbolic representation of time series has attracted many researchers recently, since it reduces the dimensionality of these high…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad , Pierre-François Marteau

As a core technology of the autonomous driving system, pedestrian trajectory prediction can significantly enhance the function of active vehicle safety and reduce road traffic injuries. In traffic scenes, when encountering with oncoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tong Su , Yu Meng , Yan Xu

This paper addresses the problem of trajectory planning for information gathering with a dynamic and resolution-varying sensor footprint. Ergodic planning offers a principled framework that balances exploration (visiting all areas) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ziyue Zheng , Yongce Liu , Hesheng Wang , Zhongqiang Ren

We present a mathematical model to predict pedestrian motion over a finite horizon, intended for use in collision avoidance algorithms for autonomous driving. The model is based on a road map structure, and assumes a rational pedestrian…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Ivo Batkovic , Mario Zanon , Nils Lubbe , Paolo Falcone

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

Understanding human mobility is important for the development of intelligent mobile service robots as it can provide prior knowledge and predictions of human distribution for robot-assisted activities. In this paper, we propose a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Bo Tang , Chao Jiang , Haibo He , Yi Guo

This paper provides a new perspective to understand existing controversy on the social force model. These issues include that the social force disobeys Newton 3rd Law, oscillation phenomenon when one agent is approaching another as well as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-09 Peng Wang , Xiaoda Wang