Bidirectional Pedestrian Stream Model with Oblique Intersecting Angle
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 136, Issue 3
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a model of bidirectional pedestrian streams with an oblique intersecting angle that represents the crossing interaction of pedestrians moving in different directions on a walking facility. We formulate the model based on Drake’s model in the traffic flow literature, and calibrate it using results from a set of controlled experiments in which two groups of pedestrians were asked to walk in different directions and cross on designated walkways with different levels of pedestrian flow and different intersecting angles. Their movements were video recorded, and macroscopic quantities such as speed, density, and flow were extracted to calibrate the model of bidirectional pedestrian streams. All of the parameters of the calibrated model are statistically significant at the 0.1% level.
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Acknowledgments
The work described in this paper was jointly supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (Grant Nos. UNSPECIFIEDHKU 7183/06E and UNSPECIFIEDPOLYU 5168/04E), the University of Hong Kong (Grant No. UNSPECIFIED10207394), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. NNSFC70629001).
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 136 • Issue 3 • March 2010
Pages: 234 - 242
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Received: Jul 7, 2008
Accepted: Jul 2, 2009
Published online: Feb 12, 2010
Published in print: Mar 2010
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