Impacts of group behavior on boarding process at the platform of high speed railway station

Li, Chuan-Yao; Yang, Rui-Yu; Xu, Guangming

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2019.122247

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“…A cellular automaton model is a typical rule model firstly independently proposed by Blue [27] and Fukui, [28] and afterwards it has been greatly adopted due to its simple calculation, wide application range, and its convenience to change the rule. [29][30][31] Compared with an ordinary pedestrian flow, the panic pedestrian evacuation presents the characteristics of the higher crowd density, the stronger interaction, and its obvious psychological impact. As a matter of fact, the simulation approach of the panic evacuation is mostly an improved one based on the general pedestrian flow research method.…”

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Simulation of crowd dynamics in pedestrian evacuation concerning panic contagion: A cellular automaton approach

Wang

Chen

et al. 2022

Chinese Phys. B

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The study of the panic evacuation process is of great significance to emergency management. Panic not only causes negative emotions such as irritability and anxiety, but also affects the pedestrians decision-making process, thereby inducing the abnormal crowd behavior. Prompted by the epidemiological SIR model, an extended floor field cellular automaton model was proposed to investigate the pedestrian dynamics under the threat of hazard resulting from the panic contagion. In the model, the conception of panic transmission status (PTS) was put forward to describe pedestrians' behavior who could transmit panic emotions to others. The model also indicated the pedestrian movement was governed by the static and hazard threat floor field. Then rules that panic could influence decision-making process were set up based on the floor field theory. The simulation results show that the stronger the pedestrian panic, the more sensitive pedestrians are to hazards, and the less able to rationally find safe exits. However, when the crowd density is high, the panic contagion has a less impact on the evacuation process of pedestrians. It is also found that when the hazard position is closer to the exit, the panic will propagate for a longer time and have a greater impact on the evacuation. The results also suggest that as the extent of pedestrian's familiarity with the environment increases, pedestrians spend less time to escape from the room and are less sensitive to the hazard. In addition, it is essential to point out that, compared with the impact of panic contagion, the pedestrian's familiarity with environment has a more significant influence on the evacuation.

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