1 Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Big Data Application Technologies for Comprehensive Transport, Ministry of Transport, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; 2 College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Abstract A new heuristics model based on the Voronoi diagram is presented to simulate pedestrian dynamics with the non-crowded state, in which these mechanisms of preference demand evading and surpassing, microscopic anti-deadlock, and site-fine-tuning are considered. The preference demand describes the willingness determination of detouring or following other pedestrians. In the evading and surpassing mechanisms, in order to achieve a balance between avoiding conflicts and minimizing detour distances, a new pair of concepts: "allow-areas and denial-areas" are introduced to divide the feasible region for pedestrians detour behaviors, in which the direction and magnitude of detour velocity are determined. A microscopic anti-deadlock mechanism is inserted to avoid deadlock problem of the counter-directional pedestrian. A site-fine-tuning mechanism is introduced to describe the behavior of avoiding getting too close to the neighbors in pedestrian movement. The presented model is verified through multiple scenarios, including the uni-or bi-direction pedestrian flow in the corridor without obstacles, the uni-direction pedestrian flow in the corridor with obstacles, and the pedestrian evacuation from a room with single-exit. The simulation results show that the velocity-density relationship is consistent with empirical data. Some self-organizing phenomena, such as lanes formation and arching are observed in the simulation. When pedestrians detour an obstacle, the avoiding area before the obstacle and the unoccupied area after the obstacle can be observed. When pedestrians evacuate through a bottleneck without panic, the fan-shaped crowd can be found, which is consistent with the actual observation. It is also found that the behavior of following others in an orderly manner is more conducive to the improvement of the overall movement efficiency when the crowd moves in a limited space.
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71771013 and 71621001), in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2019YFF0301403), in part by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) AcRF Tier 2 (Grant No. MOE2016-T2-1-044), and in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant NO. 2019JBM041).
Xin-Sen Wu(武鑫森), Hao Yue(岳昊), Qiu-Mei Liu(刘秋梅), Xu Zhang(张旭), and Chun-Fu Shao(邵春福) A new heuristics model of simulating pedestrian dynamics based on Voronoi diagram 2021 Chin. Phys. B 30 018902
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