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Stochastic Fluctuations of Diluted Pedestrian Dynamics Along Curved Paths by van der Vleuten, Geert G. M.; Toschi, Federico; Schilders, Wil H. A.; Corbetta, Alessandro is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Stochastic Fluctuations of Diluted Pedestrian Dynamics Along Curved Paths about?

As we walk towards our destinations, our trajectories are constantly influenced by the presence of obstacles and infrastructural elements: even in absence of crowding our paths are often curved. Over the last two decades pedestrian dynamics have been extensively studied aiming at quantitative models with both fundamental and technological relevance. Walking kinematics along straight paths have been experimentally investigated and quantitatively modeled in the diluted limit (i.e. in absence of pedestrian-pedestrian interactions). It is natural to expect that models for straight paths may be an accurate approximations of the dynamics even for paths with curvature radii much larger than the size of a single person. Conversely, as paths curvature increase one may expect larger and larger deviations. As no clear experimental consensus has been reached yet in the literature, here we accurately and systematically investigate the effect of paths curvature on diluted pedestrian dynamics. Thanks to a extensive and highly accurate set of real-life measurements campaign, we derive and validate via a Langevin-like social-force model capable of quantitatively describing both averages and fluctua

Author

van der Vleuten, Geert G. M.; Toschi, Federico; Schilders, Wil H. A.; Corbetta, Alessandro

Published

2023

Language

EN