urban spaces are like a dramatic stage, in which buildings and street’s facades are the actors. while people are passing through streets, they will communicate the information with the environment, as well as, explore and study the spaces. people transfer the greatest number of information from the urban space and the surrounding environment through their visual senses. hiking determines one of...

1 Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University Japan 2 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University Japan 3 Professor, Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University Japan Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation Model is computer simulation model of pedestrian movement where every pedestrian in the model is treated as individ...

A spatially continuous force-based model for simulating pedestrian dynamics is introduced which includes an elliptical volume exclusion of pedestrians. We discuss the phenomena of oscillations and overlapping which occur for certain choices of the forces. The main intention of this work is the quantitative description of pedestrian movement in several geometries. Measurements of the fundamental...

Urban space comprises not only physical forms buildings, streets, plazas, trees, etc. – but also the people 'acting on them'. The purpose of this thesis is to increase our awareness of behavior and environment relationships, focusing on local movement at the individual level in a pedestrian environment. The thesis describes the experiment Mouse.class, as a concept demonstration model, which all...

It is necessary to objectively quantify how well roadways accommodate pedestrian travel. Estimation of pedestrian level of service (LOS) is the most common approach to assess quality of operations of pedestrian facilities. Intersections, by their very nature, are locations where there is considerable potential for conflict between different traffic streams and different users. At busy intersect...

We present a method for simulating individual pedestrian motion based on empirical data. Our model keeps track of the pedestrian’s position and body confi guration (pose) and uses motion capture data to produce plausible motion. While our ultimate goal is creating 3D animations of crowds, our initial efforts focus on 2D simulations. In this paper, we present a 2D model for an able-bodied male. ...

Pedestrian protection systems will become an essential safety function in future vehicles as the government will force automotive manufacturer to improve pedestrian safety within the next few years. For such systems the ability to recognise pedestrians is mandatory. This includes detection, tracking and classification of these vulnerable road users. This paper presents a prototype system for pe...

To understand the generating causes of pedestrian movement is very important for urban planning tasks, because it is possible to infer if attitudes taken in the conception and maintenance of the spaces are in fact contributing to the social dynamics. However, to determine pedestrian flows is a difficult task due to the complexity of people movement. A way to outline this problem is through the ...