Investigating pedestrians’ obstacle avoidance behaviour

Abdullah Alhawsawi; Majid Sarvi; Milad Haghani; Abbas Rajabifard

doi:10.17815/CD.2020.77

Authors

Abdullah Alhawsawi Transport Engineering Group, School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Hajj and Umrah Institute, Umm Al-Quran University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Majid Sarvi Transport Engineering Group, School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Milad Haghani Transport Engineering Group, School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Abbas Rajabifard Transport Engineering Group, School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2020.77

Keywords:

evacuation, modelling, simulation, crowd dynamic, motion, obstacle avoidance

Abstract

Modelling and simulating pedestrian motions are standard ways to investigate crowd dynamics aimed to enhance pedestrians’ safety. Movement of people is affected by interactions with one another and with the physical environment that it may be a worthy line of research. This paper studies the impact of speed on how pedestrians respond to the obstacles (i.e. Obstacles avoidance behaviour). A field experiment was performed in which a group of people were instructed to perform some obstacles avoidance tasks at two levels of normal and high speeds. Trajectories of the participants are extracted from the video recordings for the subsequent intentions:(i) to seek out the impact of total speed, x and yaxis (ii) to observe the impact of the speed on the movement direction, x-axis, (iii) to find out the impact of speed on the lateral direction, y-axis. The results of the experiments could be used to enhance the current pedestrian simulation models.

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