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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2017, Volume 18, Issue 8 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1601592

Simulationmodel of self-organizing pedestrianmovement considering following behavior

. School of Transportation, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.. Department of Civil Engineering, Beihua University, Jilin 132013, China.. The State Key Lab of Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Available online: 2017-10-31
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A new force is introduced in the social force model (SFM) for computing following behavior in pedestrian counterflow, whereby an individual tries to approach others in the same direction to avoid conflicts with pedestrians from the opposite direction. The force, like a kind of gravitation, is modeled based on the movement state and visual field of the pedestrian, and is added to the classical SFM. The modified model is presented to study the impact of following behavior on the process of lane formation, the conflict, the number of lanes formed, and the traffic efficiency in the simulations. Simulation results show that the following behavior has a significant effect on the phenomenon of lane formation and the traffic efficiency.

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