Experiments on Pedestrian Crossing

Here is one example of application of using the Self-Organization behavior of pedestrians. The idea is to regulate the lane formation that made by the pedestrians.

We introduced two systems: mix lane in which the pedestrian self organization phenomena is observed as it is and segregating the pedestrian in the begining of the crossing (by some arrow marking on the ground). The simulation results show that regulating self-organization phenomena may produce higher speed for pedestrians as shown in the figure below.

Speed Density Relationship of Mix Lane and Lane-Like Segregation

Recent belief that self-organization would produce better results than the organized one is not happened here. Regulating the self-organization phenomena into an organized behavior produce more efficient pedestrian crossing.

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Reference: this page is taken from:

Kardi Teknomo, Microscopic Pedestrian Flow Characteristics: Development of an Image Processing Data Collection and Simulation Model, Ph.D. Dissertation, Tohoku University Japan, Sendai, 2002.