Experimental study of pedestrian flow through a bottleneck

By Tobias Kretz, Anna Grünebohm, Michael Schreckenberg. 2006

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In this work the results of a bottleneck experiment with pedestrians are presented in the form of total times, fluxes, specific fluxes, and time gaps. A main aim was to find the dependence of these values on the bottleneck width. The results show a linear decline of the specific flux with increasing width as long as only one person at a time can pass, and a constant value for larger bottleneck widths. Differences between small (one person at a time) and wide bottlenecks (two persons at a time) were also found in the distribution of time gaps.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Control and Systems Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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From Crowd Dynamics to Crowd Safety: a Video-Based Analysis (2008, background): “Video-based studies of pedestrian flows have recently been carried out by other authors as well [20, 26, 37].”
The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics (2010, background): “necessary to understand the local interaction laws underlying collective crowd dynamics. While a lot is known about the ‘physics’ of crowd motion, such as the organization emerging around bottlenecks [6,7], the segregation of opposite flows in pedestrian counterstreams [8,9,10], or the turbulent mov”
Evacuation Dynamics: Empirical Results, Modeling and Applications (2008, background): “the formation of lanes at the entrance to the bottleneck [65,66,92,175], clogging and blockages at narrow bottlenecks [25,53,92,121,122,150] or some special features of bidirectional bottleneck flow [53].”
New Insights into Pedestrian Flow Through Bottlenecks (2007, methodology): “For the useful discussions we thank Tobias Kretz, Christian Rogsch and Andreas Schadschneider.”
Calibrating a social-force-based pedestrian walking model based on maximum likelihood estimation (2013, methodology): “Pedestrian movement data for calibration was collected by shooting video, as utilized by many previous researchers (Robin et al., 2009; Mefhan et al. 2009; Kretz et al. 2006; Teknomo, 2002).”
Experimental study of pedestrian counterflow in a corridor (2006, methodology): “The experiment, which follows test scenario 8 of [18], took place at the Sportschule Wedau in Duisburg and is one of two experiments (compare [19]) which have been conducted following [18].”
Crowded Scene Analysis: A Survey (2015, background): “3) Public Space Design: The analysis of crowd dynamics and its relevant ﬁndings [25], [26] can provide some guidelines for public space design, and therefore increase the efﬁciency a r X i v : 1502 .”