Empirical Evidence for the Look-Ahead Behavior of Pedestrians in Bi-directional Flows
GUO Ren-Yong1**, WONG S. C.2, XIA Yin-Hua3, HUANG Hai-Jun4, LAM William H. K.5, CHOI Keechoo6
1College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021 2Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong 3Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 4School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191 5Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 6Department of Transportation Engineering, Ajou University, San 5 Woncheon-Dong, Yeongtong-Ku, Suwon, 442-749 Korea
Empirical Evidence for the Look-Ahead Behavior of Pedestrians in Bi-directional Flows
GUO Ren-Yong1**, WONG S. C.2, XIA Yin-Hua3, HUANG Hai-Jun4, LAM William H. K.5, CHOI Keechoo6
1College of Computer Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021 2Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong 3Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 4School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191 5Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 6Department of Transportation Engineering, Ajou University, San 5 Woncheon-Dong, Yeongtong-Ku, Suwon, 442-749 Korea
Abstract：Using the sample data obtained from a group of pedestrian experiments, a function formulating the velocity-density relationship of pedestrians and linear regression is proposed to provide empirical evidence for the look-ahead behavior of pedestrians in bi-directional flows. We find that the velocity of pedestrians is negatively correlated with not only the densities of the opposite-direction and the identical-direction pedestrians around them but also the densities of the same-direction pedestrians ahead of them. Moreover, the movement of pedestrians is most affected by other pedestrians moving in the same direction about 1 m ahead.
GUO Ren-Yong, WONG S. C., XIA Yin-Hua, HUANG Hai-Jun, LAM William H. K., CHOI Keechoo. Empirical Evidence for the Look-Ahead Behavior of Pedestrians in Bi-directional Flows[J]. 中国物理快报, 2012, 29(6): 68901-068901.
GUO Ren-Yong, WONG S. C., XIA Yin-Hua, HUANG Hai-Jun, LAM William H. K., CHOI Keechoo. Empirical Evidence for the Look-Ahead Behavior of Pedestrians in Bi-directional Flows. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2012, 29(6): 68901-068901.
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