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| Conference Presentation (After Call) | FZJ-2019-03712 |
2019
Abstract: When people are confronted with a spatial bottleneck, they either follow the social norm of queuing or they start pushing leading to a high density of persons per square meter. Typical bottlenecks where pushing can occur are entrance gates to concert areas. In a recent experiment, we investigated the influence of the width of a corridor leading straight to an entrance gate on the behavior of participants. The corridor width was varied between 1.2 m and 5.6 m while the entrance was 0.5 m wide. The main question is whether there is a critical corridor width limiting queuing behavior and facilitating a pushing behavior. As participants, university students were recruited directly after their lectures. Each group of students had to perform two runs with the same corridor width but different degrees of motivation. 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 facilitate a strong contraction followed by a high density indicating a pushing behavior. Narrow corridors and a low motivation lead to a medium density rather indicating a queuing behavior.
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