Pedestrian Trajectories and Collisions in Crowd Motion, In: Collisions Engineering: Theory and Applications
ARGOUL ; KABALAN
Type de document
CHAPITRE D'OUVRAGE (CO)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
ARGOUL ; KABALAN
Résumé / Abstract
In several biological systems, crowding can occur (ants, bees, birds, fishes, people, etc.). In human societies, crowding affects several aspects of our lives. Human crowds are considered to be one of the most complex systems. Their dynamics, resulting from individual interactions and giving rise to fascinating phenomena, is often difficult to understand and hard to model, which intrigues experts from different fields. The technological advancement, especially in computer performance, has allowed to model and reproduce pedestrian movement more realistically. Nowadays, researchers from different disciplines, such as social sciences and bio-mechanics, are better equipped to examine and understand the crowd movement and pedestrian interactions. Professionals from architects and transport planners to fire engineers and security advisors are also interested in crowd models that allows them to optimize the design and operation of a facility. In the phase of modelling pedestrian and crowd movement, the role of mechanics is prime. Using the principles of mechanics, the necessary equations of new models are derived so that scientists are able to simulate pedestrians' cognitive and behavioral mechanisms as observed by psychologists and sociologists. Finally, it is worth mentioning that by only using the equations from collision theory, several collective phenomena were well reproduced.
Editeur
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
