Individual Microscopic Results Of Bottleneck Experiments

TL;DR

This paper presents a microscopic analysis of pedestrian behavior at bottlenecks, revealing how individual differences and aggressiveness influence travel time and proposing a linear model to predict this relationship.

Contribution

It offers a detailed microscopic experimental study of pedestrian trajectories and introduces a linear model linking aggressiveness to travel time.

Findings

Heterogeneity in travel time increases with crowd density.

Some pedestrians achieve lower travel times through aggressive behavior.

A linear model predicts travel time based on pedestrian aggressiveness.

Abstract

This contribution provides microscopic experimental study of pedestrian motion in front of the bottleneck, explains the high variance of individual travel time by the statistical analysis of trajectories. The analysis shows that this heterogeneity increases with increasing occupancy. Some participants were able to reach lower travel time due more efficient path selection and more aggressive behavior within the crowd. Based on this observations, linear model predicting travel time with respect to the aggressiveness of pedestrian is proposed.