This extensive review was written for the``Encyclopedia of Complexity and System
Science''(Springer, 2008) and addresses a broad audience ranging from engineers to …

Modeling pedestrian dynamics and their implementation in a computer are challenging and
important issues in the knowledge areas of transportation and computer simulation. The aim …

To test simulation models of pedestrian flows, we have performed experiments for corridors,
bottleneck areas, and intersections. Our evaluations of video recordings show that the …

Crowd evacuation of a building has been studied over the last decades. In this paper, seven
methodological approaches for crowd evacuation have been identified. These approaches …

We propose a discrete choice framework for pedestrian dynamics, modelling short term
behavior of individuals as a response to the presence of other pedestrians. We use a …

The empirical relation between density and velocity of pedestrian movement has not been
completely analysed, particularly with regard to the'microscopic'causes which determine the …

A model of crowd motion that considers each pedestrian as a Newtonian particle subject to
both physical and social forces was reported by Helbing, Farkas, and Vicsek in 2000 …

Gibson's ecological theory of perception has received considerable attention within
psychology literature, as well as in computer vision and robotics. However, few have applied …

Degree: Dr. DegreeYear: 2004 Institute: Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands)
Publisher: DUP Science, Delft University Press, PO Box 98, 2600 MG Delft, The …

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 …