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This paper introduces a spatially continuous force-based model for simulating pedestrian dynamics. The main intention of this work is the quantitative description of pedestrian movement through bottlenecks and in corridors. Measurements of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-22 Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider , Wolfgang Mackens

This paper introduces a space-continuous force-based model for simulating pedestrian dynamics. The main interest of this work is the quantitative description of pedestrian movement through a bottleneck. Measurements of flow and density will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-15 Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider , Wolfgang Mackens

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

The possibility to understand and to quantitatively model the physics of the interactions between pedestrians walking in crowds has compelling relevant applications, e.g. related to the design and safety of civil infrastructures. In this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Alessandro Corbetta , Jasper Meeusen , Chung-min Lee , Roberto Benzi , Federico Toschi

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

Related to an idea of Lewin, a mathematical model for behavioral changes under the influence of a social field is developed. The social field reflects public opinion, social norms and trends. It is not only given by external factors (the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing

In an emergency situation, imitation of strategies of neighbours can lead to an order-disorder phase transition, where spatial clusters of pedestrians adopt the same strategy. We assume that there are two strategies, cooperating and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-12 P. Gawronski , K. Malarz , M. J. Krawczyk , J. Malinowski , A. Kupczak , W. Sikora , K. Kulakowski , J. Was , J. Kantelhardt

This paper develops a general force-based pedestrian model named CosForce, in which cosine functions are employed to describe asymmetric interactions. These functions implicitly capture the mechanisms of anticipation and reaction. By…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-15 Jinghui Wang , Wei Lv , Shuchao Cao , Chenglin Guo

To well understand crowd behavior, microscopic models have been developed in recent decades, in which an individual's behavioral/psychological status can be modeled and simulated. A well-known model is the social-force model innovated by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-29 Peng N. Wang

The area of population dynamics has a rich history of the development and analysis of models of biological and social phenomena using ordinary differential equations. This paper describes a method for understanding the influence one…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-09 John Hayward , Paul A. Roach

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

A spatially continuous force-based model for simulating pedestrian dynamics is introduced which includes an elliptical volume exclusion of pedestrians. We discuss the phenomena of oscillations and overlapping which occur for certain choices…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried , Andreas Schadschneider

Floating car data of car-following behavior in cities were compared to existing microsimulation models, after their parameters had been calibrated to the experimental data. With these parameter values, additional simulations have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing , Benno Tilch

Predicting trajectories of pedestrians based on goal information in highly interactive scenes is a crucial step toward Intelligent Transportation Systems and Autonomous Driving. The challenges of this task come from two key sources: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Weicheng Zhang , Hao Cheng , Fatema T. Johora , Monika Sester

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

Classical second order models of pedestrian dynamics, like the social-force model, suffer from various unrealistic behaviors in the dynamics, e.g. backward motion, oscillations and overlapping of pedestrians. These effects are not related…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-19 Jakob Cordes , Andreas Schadschneider , Antoine Tordeux

Usually, routing models in pedestrian dynamics assume that agents have fulfilled and global knowledge about the building's structure. However, they neglect the fact that pedestrians possess no or only parts of information about their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Erik Andresen , David Haensel , Mohcine Chraibi , Armin Seyfried

The presence of robots amongst pedestrians affects them causing deviation to their trajectories. Existing methods suffer from the limitation of not being able to objectively measure this deviation in unseen cases. In order to solve this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Subham Agrawal , Nils Dengler , Maren Bennewitz

Many human social phenomena, such as cooperation, the growth of settlements, traffic dynamics and pedestrian movement, appear to be accessible to mathematical descriptions that invoke self-organization. Here we develop a model of pedestrian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dirk Helbing , Joachim Keltsch , Peter Molnar

In this survey we consider mathematical models and methods recently developed to control crowd dynamics, with particular emphasis on egressing pedestrians. We focus on two control strategies: The first one consists in using special agents,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-25 Giacomo Albi , Emiliano Cristiani , Lorenzo Pareschi , Daniele Peri