Conference Presentation (Invited)

FZJ-2022-04619

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Pedestrian bottleneck - congestion dynamics and pushing

Seyfried, A. (Corresponding author)FZJ*

2022

Please use a persistent id in citations: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/32680

Abstract: Many aspects of pedestrian dynamics can be described using natural scientific concepts, like flow, density of speed. Nevertheless, it is obvious that socio-psychological factors describing the behaviour of pedestrian, like boardom, impatience, motivation or arousal, cannot be neglected.The first part of the presentation summarizes the state of knowledge on the flow of pedestrians through bottlenecks from a science and engineering perspective. In the second part, experiments are presented that address the interface of social psychology and science. In particular, how pedestrian motivation and spatial structure of thebottleneck affect density and the emergence of a pushing crowd in front of the bottleneck are examined. In the third part a project is presented studying risks in a pushing crowd. A x-sense system for motion tracking combined with automated trajectory capture using overhead video recordings is used to study the movement of the human body even when the density of the crowd is high.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Zivile Sicherheitsforschung (IAS-7)

Research Program(s):

1. 5111 - Domain-Specific Simulation & Data Life Cycle Labs (SDLs) and Research Groups (POF4-511) (POF4-511)

Appears in the scientific report 2022

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