Modeling people flow: online simulation of pedestrian flow in public buildings

  • Authors:

  • André Hanisch;Juri Tolujew;Klaus Richter;Thomas Schulze

  • Affiliations:

  • Fraunhofer Institute for Factory, Operation and Automation IFF, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Factory, Operation and Automation IFF, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Factory, Operation and Automation IFF, Germany;University of Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Online simulation of pedestrian flow in public buildings is a new tool which can be especially useful for improving the aspects of safety and short-term planning in the phase of organizing and operating large public buildings. These might be places such as a train station, an airport or a shopping center. This paper provides an insight into the different concepts of pedestrian flow simulation. Special emphasis is placed on explaining the mesoscopic approach as applied to the area of traffic simulation. This approach is transferred to the context of analyzing and predicting the pedestrian flow. A first prototypical implementation of a simulation supported control center is briefly presented, also.