With the increasing of large buildings and public entertainment activities, mass gathering becomes more common. It is of great importance to understand movement characteristics of high motivated running pedestrians passing through bottlenecks in emergency. In this study, a laboratory experiment is performed to study the influence of bottleneck widths on the high motivated pedestrian movement. Voronoi Diagram based methods are applied to obtain the precise density and specific flow. The density in front of the bottleneck is higher than normal motivated pedestrians and the value is up to 8 ped · m−2. Two specific flow peaks appear in the bottleneck. One is near the bottleneck entrance due to the higher density and the other locates around the exit due to the increasing speed in the bottleneck. The findings can help researchers and designers have a better understanding on the movement characteristics of high motivated pedestrians to improve the safety level of pedestrians.
Evacuation Characteristics of Students Passing Through Bottlenecks
Springer Proceedings Phys.
2020-11-17
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Evacuation , Bottleneck flow , Pedestrian dynamics , Motivation Physics , Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics , Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering , Complex Systems , Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences , Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems , Physics and Astronomy
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