IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/acsxxx/v24y2021i06ns0219525921500119.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Pedestrian Dynamics In Single-File Movement Under Background Music With Different Tempos

Author

Listed:
  • GUANG ZENG

    (School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, 400074 Chongqing, P. R. China)

  • JUN ZHANG

    (��State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 230027 Hefei, P. R. China)

  • RUI YE

    (��Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 200093 Shanghai, P. R. China)

  • ANDREAS SCHADSCHNEIDER

    (�Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Cologne, Germany)

  • SHUCHAO CAO

    (�School of Automotive and Traffic Engineering, Jiangsu University, 212013 Zhenjiang, P. R. China)

  • QIAO WANG

    (��School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, 611756 Chengdu, P. R. China)

  • WEIGUO SONG

    (��State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 230027 Hefei, P. R. China)

Abstract

Large crowds are challenging the comfort and safety level of big cities, while music may be a potential method to improve pedestrian flow. This paper focuses on the influence of different tempos and types of background music on pedestrian dynamics. Three tempos (90beats/min (BPM), 120BPM and 150BPM) and two types (pure music and metronome stimuli) of music are considered. It is found that more frequent stop-and-go behaviors emerge with rhythms. Compared with that under a low tempo (90BPM) of rhythm condition, stopping is more frequent with a high tempo one (120BPM or 150BPM). The number of stopping pedestrians per unit time increases 68.57%, 376.00%, 298.29%, 224.00%, 438.29% and 393.71% with 90 BPM, 120BPM and 150BPM music, 90BPM, 120BPM and 150BPM metronome, compared with that without any rhythm, respectively. The velocity and flow are lower, and higher local densities appear with background music. The step frequency at high density with rhythms (1.16±0.11, 1.16±0.12 and 1.15±0.10Hz for 90BPM, 120BPM and 150BPM music; 1.15±0.13, 1.11±0.09 and 1.16±0.11Hz for 90BPM, 120BPM and 150BPM metronome) is lower than that without any rhythm (1.40±0.14Hz). Pedestrians need more time to avoid collisions and to step under background music conditions, because they are influenced by the music and not fully focusing on walking. As a result, step frequency decreases and stopping behavior is more frequent. This in turn leads to the decrease of the velocity and flow and the emergence of higher local densities. Our study will be helpful for understanding the effect of background music on pedestrian dynamics.

Suggested Citation

  • Guang Zeng & Jun Zhang & Rui Ye & Andreas Schadschneider & Shuchao Cao & Qiao Wang & Weiguo Song, 2021. "Pedestrian Dynamics In Single-File Movement Under Background Music With Different Tempos," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(06), pages 1-19, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:24:y:2021:i:06:n:s0219525921500119
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219525921500119
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219525921500119
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0219525921500119?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:24:y:2021:i:06:n:s0219525921500119. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/acs/acs.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.