Experimental study on the evading behaviour of single pedestrians encountering an obstacle
Present simulation and experimental research still have deficiency in depicting the evading behaviour of single pedestrians confronting with an obstacle, which is the basis for the study of crowd dynamics affected by obstacles in real life. Therefore, this study will conduct experiments with a bar-shaped obstacle in the middle of a corridor and explore the corresponding general and particular features of single pedestrians. Particularly, the variation of pedestrian velocity and trajectory under different-sized obstacles will be illustrated. By taking the average velocity and trajectories of the 32 participants, it could be concluded that pedestrians would walk at a velocity of about 1.5 m/s without being affected by the size of obstacle. Besides, pedestrians tend to pass a location about 0.4 meters away from the obstacle edge that is perpendicular to walking direction. Furthermore, pedestrians tend to begin and finish evading the obstacle at locations respectively about 4.40 meters and 4.85 meters away from the obstacle. We also found a heterogeneity in the evading behaviour and pedestrians could be classified into four types accordingly. Results of this study are expected to provide reliable evidence for agent-based modelling in the future.
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RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
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Authors:
- Jia, Xiaolu
- Feliciani, Claudio
- Yanagisawa, Daichi
- Nishinari, Katsuhiro
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Conference:
- 9th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics: PED 2018
- Location: Lund , Sweden
- Date: 2018-8-21 to 2018-8-24
- Publication Date: 2020
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: pp 79-86
- Monograph Title: Proceedings from the 9th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics : PED 2018, August 21-24, 2018, Lund, Sweden
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Pedestrians; Simulation; Tests
- Uncontrolled Terms: Micro
- ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 9045: Micro; 1733: Pedestrian; 9103: Simulation; 6255: Test
- Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; I71: Traffic Theory;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01848161
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- ISBN: 9789189049840
- Files: ITRD, VTI
- Created Date: Jun 8 2022 1:27PM