Social Distances Model of Pedestrian Dynamics

Abstract. The knowledge of phenomena connected with pedestrian dynamics is desired in the process of developing public facilities. Nowadays, there is a necessity of creating various models which take into consideration the microscopic scale of simulation. The presented model describes pedestrian dynamics in a certain limited area in the framework of inhomogeneous, asynchronous Cellular Automata. The pedestrians are represented by ellipses on a square lattice, which implies the necessity of taking into account some geometrical constraints for each cell. An innovative idea of social distances is introduced into the model  dynamics in the model is inuenced by the rules of proxemics. As an example, the authors present a simulation of pedestrian behavior in a tram.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ACRI
• Authors: Jaroslaw Was, Bartlomiej Gudowski, Pawel J. Matuszyk
• Keywords: ACRI 2006, Asynchronous Cellular Automata, Certain Limited Area, Pedestrian Dynamics