The Influence of the Interaction Characteristics on the Movement Dynamics of Pedestrians
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One of the fundamental properties of pedestrian simulation models is their capability to predict the future movement dynamics of pedestrians depending on the current state of the pedestrian traffic flow, more specifically the walking behaviour of neighbouring pedestrians. This paper investigates the influence of the interaction characteristics on the strength of the reaction of pedestrians walking within a crowd, where the reaction consists of the absolute change in walking direction and speed. This paper studies the influence of the distance headway, time headway, angle of sight, angle of interaction, absolute speed and the number of pedestrians located nearby has been studied. Based on these findings two main conclusions can be drawn, being 1) the operational adaptations of the walking behaviour of pedestrians is influenced by more characteristics of the situation than just the distance headway with respect to the pedestrian walking directly in front of a pedestrian, 2) pedestrians are more likely to change their direction rather than their walking speed when other pedestrians are located within close proximity.
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