Simulation of Crowd Movement in Spiral Pattern during Tawaf

Simulation of large crowd is of great interest in different areas of applications such as path planning, entertainment, psychology, sociology, civil engineering, computer vision, etc. In recent years, crowd simulation models faces computationally intense problems such as poor crowd management, contr...

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Published in:Modern applied science 2015-10, Vol.9 (11), p.192-192
Main Authors: Shuaibu, Aliyu Nuhu, Faye, Ibrahima, Malik, Aamir Saeed, Simsim, Mohammed Talal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Circularity
Computer simulation
Density
Dynamical systems
Flow rate
Mathematical models
Pedestrians
Spirals
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Summary:Simulation of large crowd is of great interest in different areas of applications such as path planning, entertainment, psychology, sociology, civil engineering, computer vision, etc. In recent years, crowd simulation models faces computationally intense problems such as poor crowd management, control, global navigation, they affect the performance of real-time simulation of thousands of pedestrians. The objectives of this study were to improve the performance of the pedestrians during the ritual of Tawaf. The proposed model involves spiral patterns with inward and outward pedestrian movements during Tawaf. We plotted the pedestrians' distribution in terms of the following parameters: density, duration and walking speed; then used statistical test (t-test) to determine if there was a statistical significant among the parameters. The simulation outcome of the spiral pattern implies lower density compared to the circular pattern. We obtained maximum density of 8 persons/m super( 2) for the circular movement pattern which falls within Level of Service (LoS-E) and 4 persons/m super( 2) for the spiral path within LoS-C. This result lends support to the idea that flow rate determines how quickly the system reaches its dynamic state. Thus, high flow rate makes the system unstable, because of the effect of increases in density.
ISSN:1913-1844
1913-1852