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Team-moving effect in bi-direction pedestrian flow

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  • Wang, Ziyang
  • Song, Bingxue
  • Qin, Yong
  • Jia, Limin

Abstract

We propose a cellular automation model to simulate team-moving behavior in bi-directional pedestrian flow. The moving rules for double-pedestrian teaming include the constraint that pedestrians remain on adjacent cells. Phase transition, critical density — team number, velocity–density, and flow–density relationships are key component parts of the analysis. Simulations show that team-moving produces significant corridor capacity effects, and effects highly depend on the type of teaming behavior. In daily life, pedestrians prefer traverse teaming; under this bias, as teaming pedestrians increase in number, critical density reduces; that means traverse teaming will weaken the capacity of the corridor. The effect of traverse team-moving is nonlinear, and capacity will continually reduce as the team numbers increase; however, reduction rate will decay. We call this phenomenon, “the marginal utility of team-moving.”

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  • Wang, Ziyang & Song, Bingxue & Qin, Yong & Jia, Limin, 2012. "Team-moving effect in bi-direction pedestrian flow," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(11), pages 3119-3128.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:391:y:2012:i:11:p:3119-3128
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.12.066
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    1. Zhang, Bosi & Chen, Wenyan & Ma, Xian & Qiu, Ping & Liu, Fupeng, 2020. "Experimental study on pedestrian behavior in a mixed crowd of individuals and groups," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 556(C).
    2. Lili Lu & Gang Ren & Wei Wang & Chen Yu & Chenzi Ding, 2013. "Exploring the Effects of Different Walking Strategies on Bi-Directional Pedestrian Flow," Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi, vol. 2013, pages 1-9, November.
    3. Zhang, Qi, 2015. "Simulation model of bi-directional pedestrian considering potential effect ahead and behind," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 419(C), pages 335-348.

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