Yang LZ, Fang WF, Li J, Huang R, Fan WC (2003b) Cellular automata pedestrian movement model considering human behavior. Chinese Science Bulletin 48(16), 1695-1699. [In English]
Web link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1360/02ww0271
Keywords:
cellular automata; pedestrian movement; human behavior; phase transition; traffic-flow; jamming transition; features;
Abstract: The pedestrian movement is more complex than vehicular flow for the reason that people are more flexible and intelligent than car. Without the limit of "lanes" pedestrian movement is loose and free. Furthermore, they are easily affected by other walkers as well as the environment around. In this paper some special technique is introduced considering human behavior to make the rules more reasonable. By simulating the two-dimension pedestrian movement, the phase transition phenomena of pedestrian movement, including the up walkers moving from the bottom to the upper boundary and the right walkers moving from the left to the right boundary, are presented. Studying on the effect of the system size on the critical density shows that the critical density is independent of the system size in the scope studied in this paper.
