
Pedestrian and Crowd Dynamics
Empirics, Theory, Models and Applications
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Serge Hoogendoorn, Hani S. Mahmassani, Winnie Daamen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 9 1 8 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 2 7 7 - 4
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Request a sales quoteMajor transportation terminals, stadiums, and other facilities attracting large crowds demand efficient and optimized designs for the safety of pedestrian flows, and surrounding vehicle traffic. This often proves difficult, as pedestrian flow operations are notoriously hard to model and predict due to inherent complexity. Pedestrian and Crowd Dynamics: Empirics, Theory, Models and Applications provides the underlying theoretical knowledge, and practical guidelines for effective modeling, and crowd management. Pedestrian and Crowd Dynamics: Empirics, Theory, Models and Applications serves as a key reference for researchers, introducing all aspects related to pedestrian modeling, including microscopic flow, continuum flow, and route choice modeling techniques. The book assists transportation planners with facilities and sensing network design, as well as with the evaluation, or development, of crowd management measures. Authored and edited by leading academics in the field, the book provides best practices, and lessons learned, with advice for overcoming implementation and legal challenges, and employing practical strategies to affect policies, attitudes, and behaviors related to crowd flow management. Pedestrian and Crowd Dynamics: Empirics, Theory, Models and Applications also features a look to the future, examining strategies for the long-term.
- Features comprehensive theoretical and practical coverage of pedestrian and crowd dynamics, including data collection, human factors, flow modeling, and simulation
- Provides hands-on information and methods applicable for transportation engineers, planners, facility designers, and crowd managers
- Case studies provide practical examples for pedestrian, crowd, and related traffic management, and evacuation, in addition to example datasets for modeling
KEYWORDS: Pedestrian Flow, Traffic, Autonomous Vehicles, Sensor Technology, Arenas, Stadiums, Large-scale events, Concerts, Surveys, Implementation, Policy, Behavior, Scenarios, Urban Traffic, Facilities design
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128159187
- eBook ISBN: 9780128162774
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Serge Hoogendoorn
Serge Hoogendoorn is a Distinguished Professor of Smart Urban Mobility in the Transport & Planning Department at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). He is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Transportation at South East University (China), and holds a distinguished research fellow position at the Research Institute of Highway (China). He is a partner in the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, and a staff member of the TRAIL Research School on Transport and Logistics at DUT. His current research features smart urban mobility, with focal areas such as theory, modelling, and simulation of traffic and transportation networks, including cars, pedestrian, cyclists and novel public transport services, development of methods for integrated management of these networks, and impact of uncertainty of travel behaviour and network operations. He has authored more than 300 journal articles, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Part C: Emerging Technologies.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor of Smart Urban Mobility, Transport and Planning Department, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsHM
Hani S. Mahmassani
Hani S Mahmassani is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, and the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation, serving as the intellectual focal point for transportation research and education at the University. His research includes multimodal transportation systems analysis, planning and operations, dynamic network modeling and optimization, autonomous vehicles and connected systems, transit network planning and design, user behavior and telematics, telecommunication-transportation interactions, large-scale human infrastructure systems, smart cities, and real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems. He has published extensively, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, and Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern UniversityWD
Winnie Daamen
Winnie Daamen is an Associate Professor in Traffic Operations and Management in Delft University of Technology’s Department of Transport & Planning. Her research includes active modes, including pedestrian and cycling traffic. She is currently working on active modes for the Allegro project, a focus of the European Horizon2020 project about slow traffic modes (pedestrians, bicycles). She specializes in data collection, and data analysis to gain insight into traffic participant behavior and modelling these behaviors. She is a member of the steering committee for the Ninth International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (2018). She has published extensively, including in Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, and Journal of Choice Modeling
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Chair of Traffic Operations and Management of the Department of Transport and Planning, The Netherlands