The Effect of Integrating Travel Time

TL;DR

This paper investigates how incorporating estimated remaining travel time affects pedestrian simulation quality, finding that it is more influential than the choice of modeling technique, whether force-based or cellular automata.

Contribution

It demonstrates the importance of travel time estimation in improving pedestrian simulation realism across different modeling approaches.

Findings

Considering travel time improves simulation realism

Travel time consideration outweighs model type effects

Both models benefit from travel time integration

Abstract

This contribution demonstrates the potential gain for the quality of results in a simulation of pedestrians when estimated remaining travel time is considered as a determining factor for the movement of simulated pedestrians. This is done twice: once for a force-based model and once for a cellular automata-based model. The results show that for the (degree of realism of) simulation results it is more relevant if estimated remaining travel time is considered or not than which modeling technique is chosen -- here force-based vs. cellular automata -- which normally is considered to be the most basic choice of modeling approach.