Title
Modeling Crowd Evacuation via Behavioral Heterogeneity-Based Social Force Model
Abstract
With the increasing scale of crowds in public places, the study of modeling crowd evacuation has become a significant research field. However, most previous research ignores to incorporate behavioral heterogeneity of individuals into the modeling framework, making it hard to replicate more realistic evacuation processes. Therefore, a behavioral heterogeneity-based social force model (BHSFM) is proposed to reveal the heterogeneity characteristics from the aspect of individual behavior. Numerical experiments show that the BHSFM provides a general mathematical framework for describing behavioral heterogeneity and forms a more reasonable and elaborate evacuation process. Notably, some interesting evacuation phenomena can emerge by integrating the behavioral heterogeneity coefficient with temporal-spatial dynamic risk indexes. Compared with the social force model (SFM), higher frequencies of small-scale displacements are performed by BHSFM due to more pushing behaviors. Furthermore, the periods and areas of a potential crowd disaster are revealed by our model under different numbers of pedestrians, which has important guiding significance for formulating reasonable evacuation schemes in specific scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TITS.2022.3140823
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mathematical models, Indexes, Force, Stress, Psychology, Physiology, Dynamics, Crowd dynamics, social force model, behavioral heterogeneity, crowd evacuation, nonlinear system
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1524-9050
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenhan Wu101.01
Jinghai Li200.68
Wenfeng Yi300.34
Xiaoping Zheng421.18