Extended social force model with a dynamic navigation field for bidirectional pedestrian flow

Abstract

An extended social force model with a dynamic navigation field is proposed to study bidirectional pedestrian movement. The dynamic navigation field is introduced to describe the desired direction of pedestrian motion resulting from the decision-making processes of pedestrians. The macroscopic funda-mental diagrams obtained using the extended model are validated against camera-based observations. Numerical results show that this extended model can reproduce collective phenomena in pedestrian traffic, such as dynamic multilane flow and stable separate-lane flow. Pedestrians’ path choice behavior significantly affects the probability of congestion and the number of self-organized lanes.

Keywords

bidirectional pedestrian flow / social force model / dynamic navigation field / collective phenomena / complex systems

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