Analysis on Pedestrian Route Choice Behavior in Underground Shopping Streets

Pedestrians' Route Choice Model for Shopping Behavior

This paper presents an agent-based model to address the pedestrian route choice problem in shopping malls. Route choice in shopping malls may be defined by a number of causal factors. Shoppers may follow a pre-defined schedule, they may be influenced by other people walking, or may want to get a glimpse of a familiar shopping. The route choice process assumes that the cost of each route can be ...

Pedestrian Route Choice by Iterated Equilibrium Search

In vehicular traffic planning it is a long standing problem how to assign demand such on the available model of a road network that an equilibrium with regard to travel time or generalized costs is realized. For pedestrian traffic this question can be asked as well. However, as the infrastructure of pedestrian dynamics is not a network (a graph), but two-dimensional, there is in principle an in...

Travelers' Route Choice Behavior in Risky Networks

TRAVELERS’ ROUTE CHOICE BEHAVIOR IN RISKY NETWORKS SEPTEMBER 2013 HENGLIANG TIAN B.S., BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS M.S., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Song Gao The accurate modeling of travelers’ route choice decision making when faced with unreliable (risky) travel times is necessary for the assessme...

Pedestrian Simulation Considering Stochastic Route Choice and Multidirectional Flow

This paper proposes a framework of a dynamic pedestrian model integrated with a strategic route choice model and multi-directional flow propagation. Despite a vast number of proposed pedestrian models especially in the last decade, very few of these considered both pedestrian’s route choice behavior and physical movement in a single integrated framework. In an open space, even after the discret...

Towards More Pedestrian-friendly Streets in Cairo