Experimental and modelling studies of collision avoidance strategy choices and behavioural characteristics in interweaving pedestrian flow.

ABSTRACT: The mechanisms of collision avoidance (CA) behaviours in interweaving pedestrian flow movements are important for pedestrian space planning and emergency management but not well understood yet. In this paper, a series of controlled interweaving pedestrian flow experiments with different densities are carried out to investigate the CA behaviours, especially CA strategy choices. Four types of CA strategies are manually identified in these experiments. Nine characteristic parameters based on the trajectory data are defined to explore the characteristics of CA behaviours. The experimental results reveal that (i) the CA behaviours change with density levels; (ii) heterogeneities can be found for individual pedestrians; (iii) the defined characteristic parameters show different statistical featu

SUBMITTER: Luan QY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277244 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature