Pedestrian behavior : models, data collection and applications / edited by Harry Timmermans. - 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prelims -- Pedestrians choices -- Empirical results for pedestrian dynamics and their implications for cellular automata models -- Modeling, simulating, and visualizing crowd dynamics with computational tools based on situated cellular agents -- Modeling impulse and non-impulse store choice processes in a multi-agent simulation of pedestrian activity in shopping environments -- Modeling pedestrian movement in shopping street segments -- Simulating pedestrian route-choice behavior under transient traffic conditions -- Modeling and simulating pedestrian shopping behavior based on principles of bounded rationality -- A model of time use and expenditure of pedestrians in city centers -- A novel calibration approach of microscopic pedestrian models -- Crowd dynamics phenomena, methodology, and simulation -- The MATSim Network flow model for traffic simulation adapted to large-scale emergency egress and an application to the evacuation of the Indonesian city of Padang in case of a tsunami warning -- Comparative study of pedestrian behavior in central shopping areas of East Asian cities -- The pedestrian itinerary - Purposes, environmental factors and path decisions -- Visitors' behavior in World Expo 2010 Shanghai: an application of discrete choice models and web-based survey -- Measurement of pedestrian movements: a comparative study on various existing systems.

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Pedestrian traffic flow.
Pedestrians--Decision making.
Pedestrians--Research.
Pedestrians--Mathematical models.
Transportation--Public Transportation.
Road traffic law, motoring offences.

HE336.P43 / P43 2009

388.41

656.1/.5