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most citedPedestrians in static crowds are not grains, but game players

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cond-mat.stat-mech2022★ 18 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2022

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…

cond-mat.stat-mech2022

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…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 19 cited

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…