Crossing Pedestrian traffic flows, the diagonal stripe pattern, and the chevron effect

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/34/345002zbMATH Open1273.90048arXiv1305.7158OpenAlexW2163652316MaRDI QIDQ2848007FDOQ2848007

Authors: J. Cividini, C. Appert-Rolland, H. J. Hilhorst 

Publication date: 25 September 2013

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study two perpendicular intersecting flows of pedestrians. The latter are represented either by moving hard core particles of two types, eastbound ($symbp$) and northbound ($symbm$), or by two density fields, $$ and $$. Each flow takes place on a lattice strip of width $M$ so that the intersection is an $MimesM$ square. We investigate the spontaneous formation, observed experimentally and in simulations, of a diagonal pattern of stripes in which alternatingly one of the two particle types dominates. By a linear stability analysis of the field equations we show how this pattern formation comes about. We focus on the observation, reported recently, that the striped pattern actually consists of chevrons rather than straight lines. We demonstrate that this `chevron effect' occurs both in particle simulations with various different update schemes and in field simulations. We quantify the effect in terms of the chevron angle $Deltahet{a}_0$ and determine its dependency on the parameters governing the boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.7158

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

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