How people with disabilities influence crowd dynamics of pedestrian movement through bottlenecks.

ABSTRACT: Despite considerable research efforts, most controlled empirical studies on crowd movement usually rely on homogeneous crowds, i.e., research participants are typically young adults without disabilities. Consequently, relatively little is known about pedestrian movement in more diverse and heterogeneous crowd conditions, e.g., when persons with reduced mobility are present. This gap may be particularly relevant at bottlenecks, along the path of a moving crowd, that limit the capacity of pedestrian flow. Here, we present results from 12 studies in which participants (total N = 252) with and without visible disabilities moved together in a crowd. In each study, groups of participants walked together in a hallway with a bottleneck at the end. The point of speed adoption, distances between nei

SUBMITTER: Geoerg P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9395390 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature