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Extended social force model with a dynamic navigation field for bidirectional pedestrian flow

Applied Physics 2017-05-11 v1

Abstract

An extended social force model with a dynamic navigation field is proposed to study bidirectional pedestrian movement. The dynamic navigation field is introduced to describe the desired direction of pedestrian motion resulting from the decision-making processes of pedestrians. The macroscopic fundamental diagrams obtained using the extended model are validated against camera-based observations. Numerical results show that this extended model can reproduce collective phenomena in pedestrian traffic, such as dynamic multilane flow and stable separate-lane flow. Pedestrians' path choice behavior significantly affects the probability of congestion and the number of self-organized lanes.

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@article{arxiv.1705.03569,
  title  = {Extended social force model with a dynamic navigation field for bidirectional pedestrian flow},
  author = {Yan-Qun Jiang and Bo-Kui Chen and Bing-Hong Wang and Weng-Fai Wong and Bing-Yang Cao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.03569},
  year   = {2017}
}
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