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Volume 134, Number 1, April 2021
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Article Number | 18003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/134/18003 | |
Published online | 17 May 2021 |
The existence of cautious pedestrians might facilitate evacuation dynamics
1 School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hebei University of Technology - Tianjin 300130, China
2 Tianjin Normal University - Tianjin 300130, China
(a) lk5622355@pku.edu.cn (corresponding author)
Received: 8 April 2021
Accepted: 28 April 2021
How to accurately simulate the real collective behavior of pedestrian evacuation remains an important issue in research of complex systems. The existing crowd simulation models in general assumed that pedestrians move directly towards the exit. In real life, however, there exist “cautious” pedestrians who fear trampling and crowding during evacuation, so we use an improved social force model to investigate how their presence influences evacuation dynamics. Simulation results reveal that the total evacuation time does not increase monotonically with the increment of the number of cautious pedestrians. Specifically, the presence of a moderate number of cautious pedestrians with rational psychological tolerance might substantially facilitate evacuation efficiency, compared with a conventional evacuation scenario. In addition, lower psychological tolerance promotes emergency evacuation, while increasing the tolerance threshold is conducive to slow evacuation. We hope that our research will provide some insights into the reasonable optimal strategies for emergency evacuation.
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