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[3A5-GS-5-05] Modeling Waiting Behavior in Pedestrian Traffic Simulation

〇Reo Tamura¹, Hideki Fujii¹ (1. School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

Keywords:Pedestrian traffic simulation, Multi-Agent System, Social Force Model, Waiting pedestrians

The increasing severity of environmental problems and natural disasters and the dramatic development of computational technology have led to a growing interest in pedestrian traffic simulation. In this study, we focus on pedestrian waiting behavior in pedestrian traffic simulation. Understanding waiting behavior is important because it is universal in most traffic situations and can cause bottlenecks in traffic flow. However, pedestrian waiting behavior is not explicitly addressed in the Social Force Model (SFM), one of the most popular pedestrian traffic simulation models. In this study, we decided to extend the SFM to represent pedestrians with orderly queue-type waiting behavior and to evaluate the impact of waiting pedestrians on traffic flow. This study made it possible to quantitatively clarify the delay of pedestrian traffic due to passage restrictions caused by waiting queue.