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@INPROCEEDINGS{Adrian:857187,
author = {Adrian, Juliane},
title = {{Q}ueuing or {P}ushing in {F}ront of {B}ottlenecks},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-06424},
year = {2018},
abstract = {We present the results of a study investigating the
influence of the corridor width directly in front of a
bottleneck on the behavior of participants. The main
question is whether there is a critical corridor width
limiting queuing behavior and facilitating a pushing
behavior. In our study, we varied the corridor width between
1.2 m and 5.6 m which is leading to a 0.5 m wide bottleneck.
Students of the University of Wuppertal were recruited as
participants directly after their lectures. Each group of
students had to perform two runs with the same corridor
width but different degrees of motivation. In the first run,
the motivation was higher than in the second run. For high
motivation, the students had to imagine that they want to
enter a concert and only the first persons to enter will
have an undisturbed view of the stage. For low motivation,
they were told that all persons will be able to see the
stage.Our findings are mainly based on density and
waiting-time measurements. It is shown that wide corridors
and a high motivation of the participants facilitate a
strong contraction followed by high densities indicating a
pushing behavior. Narrow corridors and a low motivation lead
to medium densities rather indicating a queuing behavior.
Another finding of our study is that the number of
participants also has an influence on the maximum density.
Therefore, we suggest to use the number of participants as
additional controlled parameter in future studies.},
month = {Nov},
date = {2018-11-05},
organization = {Physics and Psychology of Human Crowd
Dynamics, Leiden (Netherlands), 5 Nov
2018 - 9 Nov 2018},
subtyp = {Other},
cin = {IAS-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-7-20180321},
pnm = {511 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods
(POF3-511)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-511},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/857187},
}