Conveners
Traffic and agent monitoring systems
- Pavel Hrabák (Department of Mathematics, FIT Czech Technical University in Prague)
Traffic and agent monitoring systems
- Pavel Hrabák (Department of Mathematics, FIT Czech Technical University in Prague)
A set of evacuation experiments were performed in road tunnels in Poland in order to test how pedestrians react when exposed to reduced visibility, how the decision making process is carried out, and finally what is the impact of various circumstances like: different level of smokiness, competitive behavior or learning effect on an evacuation process. In some experiments pedestrians were...
In pedestrian dynamics research, enhancing the quality of models and data analysis is the principal goal. The global aim of this research is to show how the individual analysis of data from egress experiments can improve the pedestrian model. Improved rules at all decision-making levels make the model more realistic from a microscopic perspective, thus its predictive power increases.
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The contribution presents a generalized approach for the approximation of flow in the cellular floor-field model of pedestrian dynamics. Approximations are successfully applied to models with both Euclidean and Manhattan metric, and for various number and locations of exit cells. The concept of spacial dependent friction is presented. The flow through bottleneck can be calibrated by the value...
A double-deck rail car egress experiment aiming to estimate the effects of exit type, exit width and structure of passengers on evacuation time was organized in cooperation with UCEEB FSv ČVUT. Almost 90 participants were divided into two groups: high school students created the homogeneous group, the heterogeneous group was mixed from young children, adults and elderly respecting the...
This article attemps to analyse the factors affecting pedestrian's velocity. First, the relation velocity - individual density is quantified in the language of correlations and R2 of linear model. Then, the distance to nearest pedestrian in the view angle is introduced as a new microscopic quantity to explain trends in velocity. It seems that velocity and distance to nearest pedestrian have a...
