Self-Organization Phenomena in Pedestrian Crowds

1998/06/11 by Dirk Helbing, Peter Molnar
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.stat-mech

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published as Pages 569-577 in: F. Schweitzer (ed.) Self-Organization of Complex Structures. From Individual to Collective Dynamics (Gordon and Breach, London, 1997) · For related work see http://www.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/helbing.html and http://galaxy.cau.edu/molnar and http://summa.physik.hu-berlin.de:80/~frank/index.html

arxiv created 1998/06/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Pedestrian crowds can very realistically be simulated with a social force model which describes the different influences affecting individual pedestrian motion by a few simple force terms. The model is able to reproduce the emergence of several empirically observed collective patterns of motion. These self-organization phenomena can be utilized for new flow optimization methods which are indispensable for skilful town- and traffic-planning.

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