Modeling Stop-and-Go Waves in Pedestrian Dynamics
arXiv:1001.3283
Abstract
Several spatially continuous pedestrian dynamics models have been validated against empirical data. We try to reproduce the experimental fundamental diagram (velocity versus density) with simulations. In addition to this quantitative criterion, we tried to reproduce stop-and-go waves as a qualitative criterion. Stop-and-go waves are a characteristic phenomenon for the single file movement. Only one of three investigated models satisfies both criteria.
PPAM 2009, Eighth international conference on parallel processing and applied mathematics, Wroclaw, Poland, September 13-16, 2009. Keywords: pedestrians, fundamental diagram, stop-and-go waves, validation, modeling, microscopic, continuous space