Pedestrian dynamics refers to the study of how individual people and groups move through physical spaces, encompassing behavioral patterns such as walking speed, trajectory selection, collision avoidance, crowd formation, and emergent collective phenomena like lane formation or crowd crushes. Understanding pedestrian dynamics is critical for WiFi/CSI sensing research because accurate human activity recognition, localization, and crowd monitoring systems must account for the complexity and variability of real-world human movement to be practically deployable. Key variants in the literature range from microscopic models that simulate individual agent behavior through rule-based, force-based, or velocity-based approaches, to macroscopic and crowd-level analyses concerned with density flows, safety thresholds, and the prevention of dangerous crowd conditions.
Source Papers
- A crowd team evacuation model considering spring effect ↗ — A crowd team evacuation model considering spring effect
- A review on crowd simulation and modeling ↗ — A review on crowd simulation and modeling
- A roadmap for the future of crowd safety research and practice: Introducing the Swiss Cheese Model of Crowd Safety and the imperative of a Vision Zero target ↗ — A roadmap for the future of crowd safety research and practi
- Controlling inter-particle distances in crowds of motile, cognitive, active particles ↗ — Controlling inter-particle distances in crowds of motile, co
- Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A systematic review ↗ — Data collection methods for studying pedestrian behaviour: A
- Dimensionless numbers reveal distinct regimes in the structure and dynamics of pedestrian crowds ↗ — Dimensionless numbers reveal distinct regimes in the structu
- Microscopic insights into pedestrian motion through a bottleneck, resolving spatial and temporal variations ↗ — Microscopic insights into pedestrian motion through a bottle
- Physics of Human Crowds ↗ — Physics of Human Crowds
- Social force model for pedestrian dynamics ↗ — Social force model for pedestrian dynamics