2006/10/11 by Tobias Kretz, Anna Grünebohm, Michael Schreckenberg · 271 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Bottleneck #Constant (computer programming) #Control theory (sociology) #Distribution (mathematics) #Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics #Flow (mathematics) #Pedestrian #Traffic control and management #Urban Design and Spatial Analysis #Value (mathematics) #Work (physics) #cond-mat.stat-mech #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2006/10/p10014
published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment 2006(10), P10014 (Institute of Physics) · accepted for publication in J. Stat. Mech
arxiv created 2006/10/11 · openalex publication_date 2006/10/26 · arxiv updated 2014/02/10 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In this work the results of a bottleneck experiment with pedestrians are presented in the form of total times, fluxes, specific fluxes, and time gaps. A main aim was to find the dependence of these values on the bottleneck width. The results show a linear decline of the specific flux with increasing width as long as only one person at a time can pass, and a constant value for larger bottleneck widths. Differences between small (one person at a time) and wide bottlenecks (two persons at a time) were also found in the distribution of time gaps.