Abstract
Human crowd movement flow has been studied in various disciplines such as computing science, physics, engineering, urban planning, etc., for many decades. Some studies focused on the management of big crowds in public events whereas others investigated the egress of the crowd in emergency cases. Optimal flows of a human crowd have been a particular interest among many researchers. This paper presents how various physical barricades affect human crowd movement flow using a social force model. Simulation experiments of bidirectional crowd flows were conducted with/without barricades in a straight-line street. The barricades with various lengths and rotations were tested to discover optimal flows of a crowd with various densities of the crowd. The experimental results show that setting up barricades with a particular length and rotation generates a better flow of the crowd compared to the situations without both or either of them. This study can help the management of the crowd in public events by setting up physical barricades strategically to produce optimal flows of a crowd.
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The authors would like to thank Department of Mathematical Sciences of Trinity Western University for their generous support. The authors would also like to express their gratitude for invaluable insights and feedback from their collaborators.
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Park, A.J., Ficocelli, R., Patterson, L., Dodich, F., Spicer, V., Tsang, H.H. (2023). Effects of Various Barricades on Human Crowd Movement Flow. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2022, Volume 1. FTC 2022 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 559. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18461-1_32
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