Multiagent System Applied to the Modeling and Simulation of Pedestrian Traffic in Counterflow

Authored by Ana Luisa Ballinas-Hernandez, Angelica Munoz-Melendez, Alejandro Rangel-Huerta

Date Published: 2011-06

Sponsors: Mexican National Council for Science and Technology

Platforms: NetLogo

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

Model Code URLs: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/14/3/2/ProgramCode+UserManual.zip

Abstract

An agent-based model to simulate a pedestrian crowd in a corridor is presented. Pedestrian crowd models are valuable tools to gain insight into the behavior of human crowds in both, everyday and crisis situations. The main contribution of this work is the definition of a pedestrian crowd model by applying ideas from the field of the kinetic theory of living systems on the one hand, and ideas from the field of computational agents on the other hand. Such combination supported a quantitative characterization of the performance of our agents, a neglected issue in agent-based models, through well-known kinetic parameters. Fundamental diagrams of flow and activity are presented for both, groups of homogeneous pedestrians, and groups of heterogeneous pedestrians in terms of their willingness to reach their goals.

Tags

Agent-based modeling Activity Measurement Pedestrian Crowd