Impacts of Different Angles and Speeds on Behavior of Pedestrian Crowd Merging

Many forms of complex pedestrian crowd behaviors, including merging, can be identified in built environments such as public transport stations and public buildings. Understanding and capturing this phenomenon in a robust model is a challenging task; it is also a significant opportunity for research,...

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Published in:Transportation research record 2015-01, Vol.2490 (1), p.76-83
Main Authors: Aghabayk, Kayvan, Sarvi, Majid, Ejtemai, Omid, Sobhani, Amir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Flow rate
Merging
Pedestrians
Public buildings
Stations
Streams
Tasks
Transportation
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Summary:Many forms of complex pedestrian crowd behaviors, including merging, can be identified in built environments such as public transport stations and public buildings. Understanding and capturing this phenomenon in a robust model is a challenging task; it is also a significant opportunity for research, given the international demand for models of this type. Despite the frequent occurrence of merging of crowd streams, this complex behavior has not received enough attention so far. The literature that is related to crowd merging is limited to T-shaped intersections and studies conducted on staircases. In this study using experimental data, the crowd merging phenomenon was investigated. The impacts of different merging angles and different pedestrian speeds were investigated. The results showed that flow rates and headway distributions are affected by variety in pedestrian speeds and merging angles.
ISSN:0361-1981
2169-4052
DOI:10.3141/2490-09