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Pedestrian Group Behavior in a Cellular Automaton

In: Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012

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  • Michael Seitz

    (University of Applied Sciences
    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

  • Gerta Köster

    (University of Applied Sciences)

  • Alexander Pfaffinger

    (Siemens AG Corporate Technology)

Abstract

The study of crowd movement is very important for planning mass events and evacuations. Although many potentially critical incidents are hardly predictable, others like clogging, can be anticipated. Studies have shown that pedestrians in social groups frequently contribute the biggest part to crowds, and that these groups have a significant impact on crowd movement. Furthermore social cooperative behaviour does not stop in emergency situations, but continues or even gets stronger. We employ a cellular automaton with attractive and repulsive potentials for the simulation of individual pedestrians. Then we explain how to integrate a concise model for social groups suitable for the basic modelling techniques. Further aspects of group behavior are discussed, namely large groups and the behavior after a group separation, and we propose a model for these. These investigations lead us to the conclusion that there is a growing need of agent based modelling when facing advanced aspects of pedestrian crowd behavior.

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  • Michael Seitz & Gerta Köster & Alexander Pfaffinger, 2014. "Pedestrian Group Behavior in a Cellular Automaton," Springer Books, in: Ulrich Weidmann & Uwe Kirsch & Michael Schreckenberg (ed.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012, edition 127, pages 807-814, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-02447-9_67
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_67
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