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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

Dense pedestrian crowds may pose significant safety risks, yet their underlying dynamics remain insufficiently understood to reliably prevent accidents. In these environments, physical interactions and contact forces fundamentally shape the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-12 Thomas Chatagnon , Antoine Tordeux , Mohcine Chraibi

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

In a recent series of papers, we proposed a mathematical model for the dynamics of a group of interacting pedestrians. The model is based on a non-Newtonian potential, that accounts for the need of pedestrians to keep both their interacting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-13 Francesco Zanlungo , Zeynep Yucel , Takayuki Kanda

Crowd studies have gained increasing relevance due to the recurring incidents of crowd crush accidents. In addressing the issue of the crowd's persistent dynamism, this paper explored the macroscopic and microscopic features of pedestrians…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-28 Jinghui Wang , Wei Lv , Huihua Jiang , Zhiming Fang , Jian Ma

Understanding pedestrian dynamics is crucial for appropriately designing pedestrian spaces. The pedestrian fundamental diagram (FD), which describes the relationship between pedestrian flow and density within a given space, characterizes…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-08-27 Kota Nagasaki , Keiichiro Fujiya , Toru Seo

This study investigates the dynamics of pedestrian crossing flows with varying crossing angles $\alpha$ to classify different scenarios and derive implications for crowd management. Probability density functions of four key…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-03 Pratik Mullick

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

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 this paper, we investigate disparities in pedestrian crossing behaviors within static and dynamic crowds through experimental analysis. First, qualitative trajectory observations revealed significant behavioral differences in static and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-19 Jinghui Wang , Yajuan Jiang , Xiaoying Zhang , Fangwei Deng , Wei Lv

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

This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion. Moreover, this article focusses on the dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-09 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

This paper presents a new approach to behavioral-social dynamics of pedestrian crowds by suitable development of methods of the kinetic theory. It is shown how heterogeneous individual behaviors can modify the collective dynamics, as well…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-05 Nicola Bellomo , Livio Gibelli

In this work we investigate the behaviour of a human crowd in a cross-flow. We first analyse the results of a set of controlled experiments in which subjects were divided into two groups, in such a way to explore different density settings,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-30 Francesco Zanlungo , Claudio Feliciani , Zeynep Yücel , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Takayuki Kanda

Employing partially overlapping overhead \kinectTMS sensors and automatic pedestrian tracking algorithms we recorded the crowd traffic in a rectilinear section of the main walkway of Eindhoven train station on a 24/7 basis. Beside giving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-04 Alessandro Corbetta , Jasper Meeusen , Chung-min Lee , Federico Toschi

The behavior of pedestrians shows certain regularities, which can be described by quantitative (partly stochastic) models. The models are based on the behavior of individual pedestrians, which depends on the pedestrian intentions and on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

The strategic behaviour of pedestrians is largely determined by how they perceive and react to neighbouring people. This issue is addressed in this paper by a model which combines, in a time and space-dependent way, discrete and continuous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-23 Annachiara Colombi , Marco Scianna , Andrea Tosin

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

Quantitatively modeling the trajectories and behavior of pedestrians walking in crowds is an outstanding fundamental challenge deeply connected with the physics of flowing active matter, from a scientific point of view, and having societal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-05 Alessandro Corbetta , Lars Schilders , Federico Toschi

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