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This study validates the continuum traffic flow model of capacity drop at sag and tunnel bottlenecks, as proposed by Jin (2018) and Wada et al. (2020), through empirical analysis. Specifically, after addressing the limitations in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-30 Shin-ichiro Kai , Ryota Horiguchi , Jian Xing , Kentaro Wada

The increasing number of mass events involving large crowds calls for a better understanding of the dynamics of dense crowds. Inquiring into the possibility of a mechanical description of these dynamics, we experimentally study the crossing…

In this paper we deal with pedestrian modeling, aiming at simulating crowd behavior in normal and emergency scenarios, including highly congested mass events. We are specifically concerned with a new agent-based, continuous-in-space,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-23 E. Cristiani , M. Menci , A. Malagnino , G. G. Amaro

Collective motion of large human crowds often depends on their density. In extreme cases like heavy metal concerts and Black Friday sales events, motion is dominated by physical interactions instead of conventional social norms. Here, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-30 Arianna Bottinelli , David T. J. Sumpter , Jesse L. Silverberg

Nonreciprocal interaction crowd systems, such as human-human, human-vehicle, and human-robot systems, often have serious impacts on pedestrian safety and social order. A more comprehensive understanding of these systems is needed to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-03 Shaocong Xie , Rui Ye , Xiaolian Li , Zhongyi Huang , Shuchao Cao , Wei Lv , Hong He , Ping Zhang , Zhiming Fang , Jun Zhang , Weiguo Song

The research objectives are exploring characteristics of human mobility patterns, subsequently modelling them mathematically depending on inter-event time and traveled distances parameters using CDRs (Call Detailed Records). The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Suhad Faisal Behadili , Cyrille Bertelle , Loay E. George

Economic competition and deregulation have led to a polarization of societies between a small, increasingly powerful elite and a majority of socially excluded individuals, marginalized and unconnected to political representations. This is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-12 Daniel Aguilar-Velázquez , Denis Boyer , Robert Boyer

Avoiding bottleneck situations in crowds is critical for the safety and comfort of people at large events or in public transportation. Based on the work of Lagrangian motion analysis we propose a novel video-based bottleneckdetector by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Maik Simon , Markus Küchhold , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

The Social Force Model (SFM) is a suitable model for describing crowd behaviors under emotional stress. This research analyzes the role of the body force in the original SFM. We focused on the parameter associated with the body stiffness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-09 Ignacio Sticco , Guillermo Frank , Claudio Dorso

Congestion and extreme events in transportation networks are emergent phenomena with significant socio-economic implications. In this work, we study congestion and extreme event properties on real urban street (planar) networks drawn from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Ajay Agarwal , M. S. Santhanam

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the current understanding of crowdsourcing may not be broad enough to capture the diversity of crowd work during disasters, or specific enough to highlight the unique dynamics of information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Kate Starbird

Increasing attention is being given to the modeling and simulation of traffic flow and crowd movement, two phenomena that both deal with interactions between pedestrians and cars in many situations. In particular, crowd simulation is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mingliang Xu , Chaochao Li , Pei Lv , Wei Chen , Zhigang Deng , Bing Zhou , Dinesh Manocha

Modeling and simulation of disease spreading in pedestrian crowds has been recently become a topic of increasing relevance. In this paper, we consider the influence of the crowd motion in a complex dynamical environment on the course of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Parveena Samim Abdul Salam , Wolfgang Bock , Axel Klar , Sudarshan Tiwari

As the population of world is increasing, and even more concentrated in urban areas, ensuring public safety is becoming a taunting job for security personnel and crowd managers. Mass events like sports, festivals, concerts, political…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Sultan Daud Khan , Muhammad Saqib , Michael Blumenstein

The fundamental diagram of pedestrian dynamics gives the relation between the density and the flow within a specific enclosure. It is characterized by two distinctive behaviors: the free-flow regime (for low densities) and the congested…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-25 I. M. Sticco , G. A. Frank , F. E. Cornes , C. O. Dorso

The mathematical modeling of crowds is complicated by the fact that crowds possess the behavioral ability to develop and adapt moving strategies in response to the context. For example, in emergency situations, people tend to alter their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Daewa Kim , Demetrio Labate , Kamrun Mily , Annalisa Quaini

Recent advances in modeling and control of crowds of pedestrians are briefly surveyed in this paper. Possibilities of applying fractional calculus in the modeling of crowd of pedestrians have been shortly reviewed and discussed from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Ke-cai Cao , YangQuan Chen , Dan Stuart , Dong Yue

The emergence of collective decision in swarms and their coordinated response to complex environments underscore the central role played by social transmission of information. Here, the different possible origins of information flow…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-23 Mohammad Komareji , Yilun Shang , Roland Bouffanais

It is understood that congestion in traffic can be interpreted in terms of the instability of the equation of dynamic motion. The evolution of a traffic system from an unstable or metastable state to a globally stable state bears a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-06 Wei-Liang Qian , Bin Wang , Kai Lin , Romuel F. Machado , Yogiro Hama

Microscopic mechanisms of natural processes are frequently understood in terms of random walk models by analyzing local particle transitions. This is because these models properly account for dynamic processes at the molecular level and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-16 Jaeoh Shin , Alexander M. Berezhkovskii , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky