Pedestrian Self Organization

What is Self-organization?

When many pedestrians walk together in two-ways (or more), pedestrians do self organize by automatically creating several lanes in their walk path.

Result of the Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation diagram (above) shows the exact similarity of Self Organization Phenomena as seen in the real world speed diagram (below). You may download the full movie (726Kb AVI format) in which the self organization phenomena may be seen more clearly. The data collection procedure is explained in the pedestrian data collection page

Regulating the pedestrian self organization behavior was applied to a pedestrian crossing simulation which produce better result.

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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.