We construct a two dimensional Cellular Automata based model for the description of pedestrian dynamics. Wide range of complicated pattern formation phenomena in pedestrian dynamics are described in the model, e.g. lane formation, jams in a counterflow and egress behavior. Mean-field solution of the densely populated case and numerical solution of the sparsely populated case are provided. This ...

This paper explores the concept of the Network Fundamental Diagram for two-dimensional pedestrian networks. In doing so, we investigate if the average performance of the network can be described as a function of the average density or accumulation of the network, in line with recent findings on discrete vehicular traffic networks. We show that this is indeed the case, by considering data from w...

MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF PEDESTRIAN FLOWS by Romesh Khaddar 〈Dr. Zhonghai Ding〉, Examination Committee Chair University of Nevada, Las Vegas According to the Traveler Opinion and Perception Survey of 2005, about 107.4 million Americans regularly use walking as a mode of transport during their commute, which amounts for 51% of the total American population. In 2009, 4092 pedestrian fatalities we...

Crowd density estimation and pedestrian counting are becoming an area of interest such as assessing the social effect and impact between small groups of people within a crowd. Still, existing experimental crowd analyses performed by operators are time consuming. Generally, human controllers are engaged to achieve this task, however, more and more, visual surveillance are becoming an essential n...