How to Apply Assignment Methods that were Developed for Vehicular Traffic to Pedestrian Microsimulations

All except one of these routes will mark detours, i.e. not the shortest connection between origin and destination. The proposed assignment method is intended to work with common operational models of pedestrian dynamics. These – as mentioned before – usually send pedestrians into the direction of the spatially shortest path. Thus, all detouring routes have to be equipped with intermediate destinations, such that pedestrians can do a detour as a piecewise connection of segments on which they walk into the direction of the shortest path. One has then to take care that the transgression from one segment to the following one no artifacts are introduced into the pedestrian trajectory.