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Continuous agent-based modeling of adult-child pairs based on a pseudo-energy: Relevance for public safety and egress efficiency
Chuan-Zhi Thomas Xie, Tie-Qiao Tang, Alexandre Nicolas
Pushes, falls, stampedes, and crushes are safety hazards that emerge from the collective motion of crowds, but might be avoided by better design and guidance. While pedestrian dyna…
Time-continuous microscopic pedestrian models: an overview
Raphael Korbmacher, Alexandre Nicolas, Antoine Tordeux +1
We give an overview of time-continuous pedestrian models with a focus on data-driven modelling. Starting from pioneer, reactive force-based models we move forward to modern, active…
Parking search in urban street networks: Taming down the complexity of the search-time problem via a coarse-graining approach
Léo Bulckaen, Nilankur Dutta, Alexandre Nicolas
The parking issue is central in transport policies and drivers' concerns, but the determinants of the parking search time remain relatively poorly understood. The question is often…
Body and mind: Decoding the dynamics of pedestrians and the effect of smartphone distraction by coupling mechanical and decisional processes
Iñaki Echeverría-Huarte, Alexandre Nicolas
Pedestrians are able to anticipate, which gives them an edge in avoiding collisions and navigating in cluttered spaces. However, these capabilities are impaired by digital distract…
Adult-child pairs walking down stairs: Empirical analysis and optimal-step-based modeling of a complex pedestrian flow, with an exploration of flow-improvement strategies
Chuan-Zhi Xie, Tie-Qiao Tang, Bo-Tao Zhang +1
Pedestrian egress from training schools in the after-class period (especially in China, as children walk down stairs together with their parents) raises practical concerns related…
Parking search in the physical world: Calculating the search time by leveraging physical and graph theoretical methods
Nilankur Dutta, Thibault Charlottin, Alexandre Nicolas
Parking plays a central role in transport policies and has wide-ranging consequences: While the average time spent searching for parking exceeds dozens of hours per driver every ye…
Pedestrians in static crowds are not grains, but game players
Thibault Bonnemain, Matteo Butano, Théophile Bonnet +5
The local navigation of pedestrians amid a crowd is generally believed to involve no anticipation beyond (at best) the avoidance of the most imminent collisions. We show that curre…