Abstract:In traditional crowd simulation methods, global path planning (GPP) and local collision avoidance (LCA) were mostly used to advance pedestrians toward their own goals without colliding. However, we found that using those methods in bidirectional flows can force a pedestrian to get stuck among the incoming people, walk through the congestion, or even unintentionally occupy in a dense area, although more comfortable passageway exists. These odd behaviors are usually produced and simply noticeable in bidirectiona… Show more
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