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Routing choices of walking pedestrians in geometrically complex environments are regulated by the interplay of a multitude of factors such as local crowding, (estimated) time to destination, (perceived) comfort. As individual choices…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-03 Alessandro Gabbana , Federico Toschi , Philip Ross , Antal Haans , Alessandro Corbetta

In high-density crowds, close proximity between pedestrians makes the steady state highly vulnerable to disruption by pushing behaviours, potentially leading to serious accidents. However, the scarcity of experimental data has hindered…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-31 Qiancheng Xu , Ezel Üsten , Ahmed Alia , Biao He , Renzhong Guo , Mohcine Chraibi

How do pedestrians choose their paths within city street networks? Researchers have tried to shed light on this matter through strictly controlled experiments, but an ultimate answer based on real-world mobility data is still lacking. Here,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-26 Christian Bongiorno , Yulun Zhou , Marta Kryven , David Theurel , Alessandro Rizzo , Paolo Santi , Joshua Tenenbaum , Carlo Ratti

We present the pedestrian patterns dataset for autonomous driving. The dataset was collected by repeatedly traversing the same three routes for one week starting at different specific timeslots. The purpose of the dataset is to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Kasra Mokhtari , Alan R. Wagner

Moving groups are routinely faced with a choice of different routes as part of their daily lives, such as choosing between exits from a building. Differences in moving speeds and environmental constraints often lead to individuals being…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Anna Sigalou , Yunhe Tong , Charlie Pilgrim , Richard P. Mann , Nikolai W. F. Bode

The advancement of socially-aware autonomous vehicles hinges on precise modeling of human behavior. Within this broad paradigm, the specific challenge lies in accurately predicting pedestrian's trajectory and intention. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Farzeen Munir , Tomasz Piotr Kucner

Planning an autonomous vehicle's (AV) path in a space shared with pedestrians requires reasoning about pedestrians' future trajectories. A practical pedestrian trajectory prediction algorithm for the use of AVs needs to consider the effect…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Mahsa Golchoubian , Moojan Ghafurian , Kerstin Dautenhahn , Nasser Lashgarian Azad

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

A people-centred approach for designing large-scale built-up spaces necessitates systematic anticipation of user's embodied visuo-locomotive experience from the viewpoint of human-environment interaction factors pertaining to aspects such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Vasiliki Kondyli , Mehul Bhatt , Evgenia Spyridonos

Individual-level human mobility prediction has emerged as a significant topic of research with applications in infectious disease monitoring, child, and elderly care. Existing studies predominantly focus on the microscopic aspects of human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yueyang Liu , Lance Kennedy , Ruochen Kong , Joon-Seok Kim , Andreas Züfle

We report on two series of experiments, conducted in the frame of two different collaborations designed to study how pedestrians adapt their trajectories and velocities in groups or crowds. Strong emphasis is put on the motivations for the…

Pedestrian behavior prediction is one of the major challenges for intelligent driving systems in urban environments. Pedestrians often exhibit a wide range of behaviors and adequate interpretations of those depend on various sources of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Amir Rasouli , Tiffany Yau , Mohsen Rohani , Jun Luo

Efficient techniques to navigate networks with local information are fundamental to sample large-scale online social systems and to retrieve resources in peer-to-peer systems. Biased random walks, i.e. walks whose motion is biased on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-29 Federico Battiston , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

Understanding pedestrian behavior patterns is a key component to building autonomous agents that can navigate among humans. We seek a learned dictionary of pedestrian behavior to obtain a semantic description of pedestrian trajectories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-17 Faith Johnson , Kristin Dana

Deciphering human behaviors to predict their future paths/trajectories and what they would do from videos is important in many applications. Motivated by this idea, this paper studies predicting a pedestrian's future path jointly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Junwei Liang , Lu Jiang , Juan Carlos Niebles , Alexander Hauptmann , Li Fei-Fei

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

In the area of urban transportation networks, a growing number of day-to-day (DTD) traffic dynamic theories have been proposed to describe the network flow evolution, and an increasing amount of laboratory experiments have been conducted to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-08 Hang Qi , Ning Jia , Xiaobo Qu , Zhengbing He

Understanding the complex behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is a challenge for both science and technology. In particular, obtaining reliable models for crowd dynamics, capable of exhibiting qualitatively and quantitatively the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-12 Alessandro Corbetta , Luca Bruno , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

The problem at the heart of this tutorial consists in modeling the path choice behavior of network users. This problem has been extensively studied in transportation science, where it is known as the route choice problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Maëlle Zimmermann , Emma Frejinger

One of the objectives of understanding pedestrian behavior is to predict the effect of proposed changes in the design or evaluation of pedestrian facilities. We want to know the impact to the user of the facilities, as the design of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Kardi Teknomo , Yasushi Takeyama , Hajime Inamura