Thursday, October 10,
2013, 3pm
Location: Room 1110 of the Nguyen Engineering Building
Rainald Lohner
School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences
George Mason University
On the Modelling of Pedestrian Motion
Abstract
The accurate prediction of pedestrian motion can be used to assess
the potential safety hazards and operational performance at events
where many individuals are gathered. Examples of such situations are
sport and music events, cinemas and theatres, museums, conference
centers, places of pilgrimage and worship, as well as street
demonstrations. Evacuation from airplanes, ships, trains and buildings
also represent cases where the prediction of pedestrian motion can be
used advantageously. The talk will review the different options
available to describe and predict the motion of pedestrians, and then
detail a model developed by the author over the last decade.