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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Is Slowing Down Enough to Model Movement on Stairs?

Authors : Gerta Köster, Daniel Lehmberg, Felix Dietrich

Published in: Traffic and Granular Flow '15

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

There are many well validated models of pedestrian movement on a flat surface. This is not the case for movement on stairs. Experiments show that pedestrians slow down when climbing or descending stairs. Hence, it is tempting to model movement on stairs by simply slowing down by a factor. But this would imply that, other than being slower, motion on stairs mirrors motion in the plane. Is that assumption justified? We conduct field observations that reveal similarities but also significant differences. Thus, we argue that modelling movement on stairs by slowing down free-flow velocities may be an acceptable first shot. True microscopic behaviour, however, like treading from step to step and keeping to a straight line instead of trying to overtake can only be captured by a dedicated model. We present an extension to the Optimal Steps Model that achieves this.

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Metadata
Title
Is Slowing Down Enough to Model Movement on Stairs?
Authors
Gerta Köster
Daniel Lehmberg
Felix Dietrich
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Traffic and Granular Flow '15

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-33481-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-33482-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33482-0_5

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