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Human crowd motion is mainly driven by self-organized processes based on local interactions among pedestrians. While most studies of crowd behavior consider only interactions among isolated individuals, it turns out that up to 70% of people…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 Mehdi Moussaid , Niriaska Perozo , Simon Garnier , Dirk Helbing , Guy Theraulaz

We present a strategy capable of describing basic features of the dynamics of crowds. The behaviour of the crowd is considered from a twofold perspective. We examine both the large scale behaviour of the crowd, and phenomena happening at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 Joep Evers

This contribution proposes a method to make agents in a microscopic simulation of pedestrian traffic walk approximately along a path of estimated minimal remaining travel time to their destination. Usually models of pedestrian dynamics are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-15 Tobias Kretz , Andree Grosse , Stefan Hengst , Lukas Kautzsch , Andrej Pohlmann , Peter Vortisch

In our urbanised societies, the management and regulation of traffic and pedestrian flows is of considerable interest for public safety, economic development, and the conservation of the environment. However, modelling and controlling the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-17 Antoine Tordeux , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Alexandre Nicolas , Armin Seyfried , Denis Ullmo

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

Modeling and simulation approaches that express crowd movement with mathematical models are widely and actively studied to understand crowd movement and resolve crowd accidents. Existing literature on crowd modeling focuses on only the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Ryo Nishida , Masaki Onishi , Koichi Hashimoto

In mixed traffic scenarios, a certain number of pedestrians might coexist in a small area while interacting with vehicles. In this situation, every pedestrian must simultaneously react to the surrounding pedestrians and vehicles. Analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Dongfang Yang , Fatema T. Johora , Keith A. Redmill , Ümit Özgüner , Jörg P. Müller

A series of accidents caused by crowd within the last decades evoked a lot of scientific interest in modeling the movement of pedestrian crowds. Based on discrete element method, a granular dynamic model, in which human body is simplified…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-19 Peng Lin , Jian Ma , Siuming Lo

The aim our work is to create virtual humans as intelligent entities, which includes approximate the maximum as possible the virtual agent animation to the natural human behavior. In order to accomplish this task, our agent must be capable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-27 F. Cherif , R. Chighoub

Social scientists have criticised computer models of pedestrian streams for their treatment of psychological crowds as mere aggregations of individuals. Indeed most models for evacuation dynamics use analogies from physics where pedestrians…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-13 I. von Sivers , A. Templeton , F. Künzner , G. Köster , J. Drury , A. Philippides , T. Neckel , H. -J. Bungartz

In nature self-organized systems as flock of birds, school of fishes or herd of sheeps have to deal with the presence of external agents such as predators or leaders which modify their internal dynamic. Such situations take into account a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 Giacomo Albi , Lorenzo Pareschi

Different families of models first developed for fluid mechanics have been extended to road, pedestrian, or intracellular transport. These models allow to describe the systems at different scales and to account for different aspects of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-20 Cecile Appert-Rolland

This paper provides an overview and critical analysis on the modeling and applications of the dynamics of human crowds, where social interactions can have an important influence on the behavioral dynamics of the crowd viewed as a living,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-21 Nicola Bellomo , Livio Gibelli , Nisrine Outada

The calibration and validation of pedestrian simulations require the acquisition of empirical evidences of human behaviour. The current work presents the results of an experiment focused on the potentially combined effect of counter flow…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Andrea Gorrini , Luca Crociani , Claudio Feliciani , Pengfei Zhao , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Stefania Bandini

Modeling mixed-traffic motion and interactions is crucial to assess safety, efficiency, and feasibility of future urban areas. The lack of traffic regulations, diverse transport modes, and the dynamic nature of mixed-traffic zones like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Fatema T. Johora , Dongfang Yang , Jörg P. Müller , Ümit Özgüner

Following the paradigm set by attraction-repulsion-alignment schemes, a myriad of individual based models have been proposed to calculate the evolution of abstract agents. While the emergent features of many agent systems have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-03 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Pierre Degond

In this paper, a simple 1D crowd model is proposed, which aim is to properly describe the crowd-flow phenomena occurring when pedestrians walk on a flexible footbridge. The crowd is assumed to behave like a continuous compressible fluid and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-13 Joanna Bodgi , Silvano Erlicher , Pierre Argoul

Stochastic particle--based models are useful tools for describing the collective movement of large crowds of pedestrians in crowded confined environments. Using descriptions based on the simple exclusion process, two populations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Adrian Muntean , T. K. Thoa Thieu

Collective movement is observed widely in nature, where individuals interact locally to produce globally ordered, coherent motion. In typical models of collective motion, each individual takes the average direction of multiple neighbors,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-23 Yogesh Kumar KC , Arshed Nabeel , Srikanth Iyer , Vishwesha Guttal

A kind of fluid dynamic description for the collective movement of pedestrians is developed on the basis of a Boltzmann-like gaskinetic model. The differences between these pedestrian specific equations and those for ordinary fluids are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing