Simulation of space acquisition process of pedestrians using Proxemic Floor Field Model

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Proxemic Floor Field Model, an extension of the Floor Field Model, to simulate pedestrian space acquisition, analyzing how entrance placement affects pedestrian behavior and entry times.

Contribution

The paper presents the Proxemic Floor Field Model with thresholds, providing new insights into pedestrian entry processes and the impact of entrance location on behavior.

Findings

Entrance in corners causes longer entry times.

Proxemic Floor Field effectively models repulsion forces.

Simulation results align with approximate analyses.

Abstract

We propose the Proxemic Floor Field Model as an extension of the Floor Field Model, which is one of the successful models describing the pedestrian dynamics. Proxemic Floor Field is the Floor Field which corresponds to the effect of repulsion force between others. By introducing the Proxemic Floor Field and threshold, we investigate the process that pedestrians enter a certain area. The results of simulations are evaluated by simple approximate analyses and newly introduced indices. The difference in pedestrian behavior due to the disposition of the entrance is also confirmed, namely, the entrance in the corner of the area leads to the long entrance time because of the obstruction by pedestrians settling on the boundary cells.