Modeling and simulating the matching behavior of pedestrian flow at training school during the pickup period after class

Experiment, model, and simulation of the pedestrian flow around a training school classroom during the after-class period

“…Based on the above discussions, we can apply Equations ( 18)-( 20) and the proposed children's motion model (i.e., Equations ( 13) and ( 14)) to depict the children's movement after the adult-child pair is formed. Overall, this study is different from Tang et al 17,18 where the differences are as follows:…”

“…In addition, the children whose adults are outside the classroom will stop at the classroom door to search their adults and leave the door only after they confirm their adults' positions, which indicates that the children have the pausing time at the door. Tang et al 18 mentioned the pausing time but did not calibrate it. Here, we conducted some video experiments in Shenzhen New World Training School to estimate/calibrate the pausing time (see Figure 3).…”

“…(1) The proposed model considers the body size and the walk speeds of adults and children. (2) Based on a variety of experimental methods, the proposed model considers a more realistic adultchild pairing and matching behavior, but the models in Tang et al 17,18 simplified the paring and matching behavior as a rigid effect. (3) The proposed model simultaneously considers the classroom and the corridor outside as the tested scenario, but the classroom and the corridor are set two separate tested scenarios, respectively, in Tang et al 17,18…”

“…(2) Except for the obedience of parents to children mentioned in (1), the pedestrians have other unique behaviors 17,18 (e.g., the child's searching behavior, packing behavior, etc.) during the afterclass period, which shows that the pedestrian system in the training school is more than one in the ordinary school.…”

Simulation of pedestrian evacuation route choice using social force model in large-scale public space: Comparison of five evacuation strategies

“…Other studies indicate that besides distance, illumination condition, route distance, guidance sign, pleasantness and route familiarity et al are important route attributes together producing a high correlation with the route preferences, and the influence effects of above factors were not the same under different facility conditions [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. For example, in a classroom, Chen L, Tang T, Huang H, et al [15][16][17][18][19] found that the position, congestion, group behavior and backtracking behavior have significant effects on children's route choice, but gender and guidance have no prominent impacts on children's route choice. Guo R, Huang H, and Wong [20] revealed several typical forms of behavior related to preference for destination, effect of capacity, interaction between pedestrians, following behavior and evacuation efficiency.…”