Pedestrian dynamics: experiments, models and applications

PARISI DANIEL R.

Workshop; Latin American School and Workshop on Data Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of Social Sciences; 2016

Orador Invitado:In this talk we are going to introduce the main features of pedestrian and crowd physics, presenting the main "macroscopic" observables and some "microscopic" mechanisms of navigation. In order to describe the real system, empirical observation and controlled experiments will be shown, considering two kind of agent behaviors: cooperative and competitive. Also, we are going to discuss pedestrian models that allow computer simulation and that reproduce the observed data. Finally, the validated models are used to build simulation softwares that can handle virtual crowds in complex facilities and that can be used for different applications such as: efficient design of buildings, transport terminals and safe evacuation systems, among others.