Modeling Environmental Operative Elements in Agent-Based Pedestrian Simulation

Luca Crociani; Giuseppe Vizzari; Stefania Bandini

doi:10.17815/CD.2020.85

Authors

Luca Crociani Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Giuseppe Vizzari Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Stefania Bandini Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy and Research Center on Advanced Science and Technology,The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2020.85

Keywords:

agent-based simulation, environment, operative elements

Abstract

Models for pedestrian simulation are employed on a day-to-day basis for supporting the design and planning of the built environment in normal and evacuation situations. One of the aspects that are least investigated in the community, probably because it is considered closer to technology transfer than to research, is the modelling of operational elements of the simulated environment. The present paper briefly describes an agent-based approach to the representation of operative elements of the environment with particular attention to the mechanisms of interaction between these active objects and pedestrians.

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