Body-rotation behavior of pedestrians for collision avoidance in passing and cross flow
arXiv:1903.07742 · doi:10.1016/j.trb.2019.03.008
Abstract
We observe body-rotation behavior of pedestrians to avoid others when they are moving in congested situations. In such cases, body orientation often differs from walking direction, i.e., pedestrians step sideways. In this paper, we focused on a deviation between body orientation and walking direction during collision avoidance by body rotation for counter-flows in narrow corridors quantitatively. We conducted simple experiments in which two pedestrians passed each other. We found that pedestrians rotated their bodies when the width of the corridor was smaller than the sum of the widths of the two pedestrians. This behavior was explained by analyzing the geometry of two ellipses circumscribing each other in a narrow corridor. Moreover, we developed a preliminary model and succeeded to simulate the deviation between body orientation and walking direction during passing observed in the experiments. Furthermore, we performed a cross-flow experiment, which is much more complex and realistic than the passing experiments and confirmed that body-rotation behavior is also an indispensable factor for complex and realistic scenarios.
40 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables
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