2017/12/31 by Tobias Kretz, Kretz, Tobias, Jochen Lohmiller +3
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Traffic control and management #Transportation Planning and Optimization
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1801.00276
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The Social Force Model of pedestrian dynamics is formulated in a way that a)\nmost of its parameters do not have an immediate interpretation, b) often one\nsingle parameter has an impact on many aspects of walking behavior and c) a\ncertain aspect of walking behavior results from the values of more than one\nparameter. This makes calibration difficult. The aim of this paper is to give\npractitioners an indication of how to proceed in the calibration process. For\nthis by analytical transformations the parameters of the Social Force Model are\nrelated to real properties that have a clear and immediate meaning and which\nare also highly relevant result properties of a simulation: extent and\nclearance time of a queue, respectively maximum density and capacity flow. The\ntheory for this is presented as well. As a side effect it can give a deeper\nunderstanding of the model for everyone interested in theoretical aspects.\n