Paper Info
Title
Simulation Study Of The Spiral Motion Of Pedestrians: A Cellular Automata Approach
Abstract
When the pedestrians share the same objectives moving toward the same direction, huge congestion is often created in some regions. The pedestrians lose mobility in the congestion and subsequently create a deadlock phenomenon. This study considers an event that pedestrians rotate around and moves toward a central object. The pedestrian motion is modelled by use of Cellular Automata (CA) to analyse how the congestion at centre region is developed. The model is implemented in hexagonal lattice with static floor fields in polar coordinate. Interaction of rotational and centripetal mobility generates the spiral motions of the pedestrian. In this study, various simulations are carried out to investigate the effect of model parameters and macroscopic properties. The pedestrian motion creates high density area at centre region and the density gradually decreases toward outside. The radial distribution of the circumferential density characterises the pedestrian flow, such that a deadlock occurs at the inner region and a free flow occurs at the outer region. Moreover a possible solution for easing the deadlock is also suggested in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-11520-7_49
CELLULAR AUTOMATA: 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cellular Automata, pedestrian, crowd dynamics, rotational flow, floor field, polar coordinate
Hexagonal lattice,Cellular automaton,Topology,Spiral,Rotation,Centripetal force,Simulation,Computer science,Deadlock,Flow (psychology),Polar coordinate system,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8751
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kenichiro Shimura1639.37
Stefania Bandini2964191.51
Katsuhiro Nishinari318947.27