On the use of a pedestrian simulation model with natural behavior representation in metro stations

W. L. Wang; S. M. Lo; S. B. Liu; J. Ma

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.048

Author(s)

W. L. Wang
S. M. Lo
S. B. Liu
J. Ma

Related Research Unit(s)

Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

Detail(s)

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	137-144
Journal / Publication	Procedia Computer Science
Volume	52
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2015

Conference

Title	The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, ANT-2015, the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology, SEIT-2015
Place	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	2 - 5 June 2015

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Abstract

Rapid urbanization in many large cities in China makes metro station an integral part of metropolitan people's daily life. High density of crowds in metro stations would cause serious congestion problems and pose threats to pedestrian safety. Because of the heterogeneous and complex properties of pedestrians, traditional approaches face difficulties in predicting future pedestrian flow patterns. The use of agent-based simulation approach makes it possible to naturally reproduce various pedestrian behaviors in different scenarios. This paper presented an agent-based microscopic pedestrian simulation model-CityFlow, which was proved to be flexible in revealing most important pedestrian behaviors in metro stations by several simulation cases. The model applications can provide implications in evaluation of design proposals of metro facilities.