Abstract
In this study, series of experiments under laboratory conditions were carried out to study uni- and bidirectional pedestrian streams in a straight corridor. The software PeTrack is used to extract pedestrian trajectories from video recordings automatically. From these trajectories the characteristics of bidirectional flow are analyzed using the Voronoi method. The fundamental diagram for various types of bidirectional streams agree well and no large differences are found in observed density range ρ < 2.5 m−2. By comparing the diagram between uni- and bidirectional stream, it is shown that the density-flow relationships agree well for the free flow state. However, the maximum specific flow in unidirectional streams is significantly larger than that in bidirectional streams.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
V. M. Predtechenskii and A. I. Milinskii, Planning for Foot Traffic Flow in Buildings. Amerind Publishing, New Delhi, 1978, translation of: Proekttirovanie Zhdaniis Uchetom Organizatsii Dvizheniya Lyuddskikh Potokov, Stroiizdat Publishers, Moscow, 1969
U. Weidmann, “Transporttechnik der Fussgänger,” Institut für Verkehrsplanung, Transporttechnik, Strassen und Eisenbahnbau, ETH Zürich, Tech. Rep. Schriftenreihe des IVT Nr. 90, 1993, zweite, ergänzte Auflage.
J. J. Fruin, Pedestrian Planning and Design. Elevator World, New York, 1971
D. Helbing, L. Buzna, A. Johansson, and T. Werner, “Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowd Dynamics: Experiments, Simulations, and Design Solutions,” Transportation Science, vol. 39, pp. 1–24, 2005
F. D. Navin and R. J. Wheeler, “Pedestrian flow characteristics,” Traffic Engineering, vol. 39, pp. 31–36, 1969
B. Pushkarev and J. M. Zupan, “Capacity of Walkways,” Transportation Research Record, vol. 538, pp. 1–15, 1975
W. H. K. Lam, J. Y. S. Lee, and C. Y. Cheung, “A study of the bi-directional pedestrian flow characteristics at Hong Kong signalized crosswalk facilities”. Transportation, vol. 29, pp. 169–192, 2002
W. H. K. Lam, J. Y. S. Lee, K. S. Chan, and P. K. Goh,“A generalised function for modeling bi-directional flow effects on indoor walkways in Hong Kong”. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 37, pp. 789–810, 2003
S. Older, “Movement of Pedestrians on Footways in Shopping Streets,” Traffic Engineering and Control, vol. 10, pp. 160–163, 1968
M. Boltes, A. Seyfried, B. Steffen, and A. Schadschneider,“Automatic Extraction of Pedestrian Trajectories from Video Recordings,” in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 43–54, 2010
J. Zhang, W. Klingsch, A. Schadschneider, and A. Seyfried, “Transitions in pedestrian fundamental diagrams of straight corridors and T-junctions,” Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol. P06004, 2011
B. Steffen and A. Seyfried. “Methods for measuring pedestrian density, flow, speed and direction with minimal scatter”. Physica A, 389(9):1902–1910, 2010
A. John, A. Schadschneider, D. Chowdhury, and K. Nishinari. “Collective effects in traffic on bi-directional ant trails”. J. Theor. Biol., 231:279, 2004
J. Zhang, W. Klingsch, A. Schadschneider, and A. Seyfried, “Ordering in bidirectional pedestrian flows and its influence on the fundamental diagram”. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, vol. P02002, 2012
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Zhang, J., Schadschneider, A., Seyfried, A. (2014). Empirical Fundamental Diagrams for Bidirectional Pedestrian Streams in a Corridor. In: Weidmann, U., Kirsch, U., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_19
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_19
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-02446-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-02447-9
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)