Experimental study of pedestrian flow through a bottleneck
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- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
- Vol. 2006 (10) , P10014
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2006/10/p10014
Abstract
In this work the results of a bottleneck experiment with pedestrians are presented in the form of total times, fluxes, specific fluxes, and time gaps. A main aim was to find the dependence of these values on the bottleneck width. The results show a linear decline of the specific flux with increasing width as long as only one person at a time can pass, and a constant value for larger bottleneck widths. Differences between small (one person at a time) and wide bottlenecks (two persons at a time) were also found in the distribution of time gaps.Keywords
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