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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…

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In this paper we study a kinetic model for pedestrians, who are assumed to adapt their motion towards a desired direction while avoiding collisions with others by stepping aside. These minimal microscopic interaction rules lead to complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-27 Adriano Festa , Andrea Tosin , Marie-Therese Wolfram

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 are often encountered walking in the company of some social relations, rather than alone. The social groups thus formed, in variable proportions depending on the context, are not randomly organised but exhibit distinct features,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-29 Alexandre Nicolas , Fadratul Hafinaz

Autonomous driving improves traffic efficiency but presents safety challenges in complex port environments. This study investigates how environmental factors, traffic factors, and pedestrian characteristics influence interaction safety…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yuan Che , Mun On Wong , Xiaowei Gao , Haoyang Liang , Yun Ye

Accurate prediction of pedestrian trajectories is crucial for enhancing the safety of autonomous vehicles and reducing traffic fatalities involving pedestrians. While numerous studies have focused on modeling interactions among pedestrians…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mohammad Ali Rezaei , Fardin Ayar , Ehsan Javanmardi , Manabu Tsukada , Mahdi Javanmardi

Understanding how pedestrians adjust their movement when interacting with autonomous vehicles (AVs) is essential for improving safety in mixed traffic. This study examines micro-level pedestrian behaviour during midblock encounters in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Rulla Al-Haideri , Bilal Farooq

We numerically study jamming transitions in pedestrian flow interacting with an attraction, mostly based on the social force model for pedestrians who can join the attraction. We formulate the joining probability as a function of social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-05 Jaeyoung Kwak , Hang-Hyun Jo , Tapio Luttinen , Iisakki Kosonen

Walking is a fundamental activity of our daily life not only for moving to other places but also for interacting with surrounding environment. While walking on the streets, pedestrians can be aware of attractions like shopping windows. They…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-30 Jaeyoung Kwak , Hang-Hyun Jo , Tapio Luttinen , Iisakki Kosonen

The interaction between individuals in biological populations, dilute components of chemical systems, or particles transported by turbulent flows depends critically on their contact statistics. This work clarifies those statistics under the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Mark Peter Rast

In human crowds, interactions among individuals give rise to a variety of self-organized collective motions that help the group to effectively solve the problem of coordination. However, it is still not known exactly how humans adjust their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-25 Asja Jelić , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Samuel Lemercier , Julien Pettré

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

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

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

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

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

Predicting pedestrians' trajectories is a crucial capability for autonomous vehicles' safe navigation, especially in spaces shared with pedestrians. Pedestrian motion in shared spaces is influenced by both the presence of vehicles and other…

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

A spreading process can be observed when a particular behavior, substance, or disease spreads through a population over time in social and biological systems. It is widely believed that contact interactions among individual entities play an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-08 Jaeyoung Kwak , Michael H. Lees , Wentong Cai

Understanding the stability of complex communities is a central focus in ecology, many important theoretical advancements have been made to identify drivers of ecological stability. However, previous results often rely on the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-04 Shuaiying Wang , Yuguang Yang , Aming Li

Our current research lays emphasis on the extended pedestrian perception and copes with both the dynamic group behavior and the individual evaluation of situations, and hence, rather focuses on the tactical level of movement behavior.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-01 Michael Schultz , Lars Rößger , Hartmut Fricke , Bernhard Schlag