Traffic and Granular Flow ’22

This book gathers contributions on a variety of flowing collective systems. While primarily focusing on pedestrian dynamics, it also reflects the latest developments in areas such as vehicular traffic and granular flows and addresses related emerging topics such as self-propelled particles, data transport, swarm behaviour, intercellular transport, and individual interactions to complex systems. Combining fundamental research and practical applications in the various fields discussed, the book offers a valuable asset for researchers and professionals in areas such as civil and transportation engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, computer science, and mathematics.

Collective traffic of agents that remember.- "Nudging" crowds: When it works, when it doesn't and why.- Revisiting the theoretical basis of agent-based models for pedestrian dynamics.- An emergency evacuation model for avoiding high nuclide concentration areas in nuclear accident.- Shoulder rotation measurement in camera and 3D motion capturing data.- Methods of density estimation for pedestrians moving in small groups without a spatial boundary.- A review of entropy-based studies on crowd behavior and risk analysis.- Understanding the difference in social group behaviour of a spiritually motivated crowd and a general crowd.- Mass evacuation planning based on mean field games theory.- Experimental study of bidirectional pedestrian flow in a corridor with certain height constraint.- Crowd Dynamics of a Rural Group in a Mass Religious Gathering: A Case Study of Kumbh Mela - 2016, India.- Modeling of obstacle avoidance by a dense crowd as a Mean-Field Game.- Two types of bottlenecks in leisure facilities: bottlenecks caused by attractiveness and structural layout.- Face-validation of a route-choice module in a crowd simulator for confined indoor spaces in context of the COVID-19 pandemic.- On the Influence of Group Social Interaction on Intrusive Behaviours.- Sound Guidance on Evacuation under Limited Visibility: an Experimental Study.- Pedestrian Kernel Density Estimates: the Individual Approach.- Density dependence of stripe formation in a cross-flow.- Estimation of pedestrian crossing intentions in in-vehicle video.