Publication detail

Pedestrian headways – reflection of territorial social forces

KRBÁLEK, M. HRABÁK, P. BUKÁČEK, M.

Original Title

Pedestrian headways – reflection of territorial social forces

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The aim of the article is to give a more detailed insight into territorial social forces acting between pedestrians by means of headway distribution and spectral rigidity. Probabilistic distribution of time headways between consecutive pedestrians is studied theoretically and experimentally. Several original experiments/empirical observations are presented and compared to data obtained from previously published experiments. The study is restricted to an unidirectional one-lane motion where overtaking is forbidden. The main stress is put on natural choices of mutual interaction represented by logarithmic and hyperbolic potentials leading to gamma and generalized inverse Gaussian distribution respectively. We show that the time headway distribution does not sufficiently reflect the differences between such distributions. The tools related to spectral rigidity and compressibility are chosen instead so as to predict the territorial social forces more accurately. Surprisingly, pedestrian flow seems to show a higher level of synchronization (lower compressibility) than vehicular flow.

Keywords

Pedestrian dynamics; Microstructure of a crowd; Headway distribution

Authors

KRBÁLEK, M.; HRABÁK, P.; BUKÁČEK, M.

Released

15. 1. 2018

Publisher

Elsevier B.V.

ISBN

0378-4371

Periodical

Physica A

Year of study

490

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

38

Pages to

49

Pages count

12

URL

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437117307379

BibTex

@article{BUT138351,
  author="Milan {Krbálek} and Pavel {Hrabák} and Marek {Bukáček}",
  title="Pedestrian headways – reflection of territorial social forces",
  journal="Physica A",
  year="2018",
  volume="490",
  number="0",
  pages="38--49",
  doi="10.1016/j.physa.2017.08.013",
  issn="0378-4371",
  url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437117307379"
}