How Do Pedestrians find their Way - Results of an experimental study with students compared to simulation results

In our contribution we present results of an experiment about route choice and spatial orientation of pedestrians, which we compare with simulation results from a microscopic model for pedestrian simulation. To map large-scale orientation of pedestrians, we extended this model by a navigation graph. We describe the basic model as well as the graph layer extension. We use this graph as a basis for different routing algorithms, thus modeling different types of pedestrians, for example ones being familiar and ones being not familiar with the location. We discuss the results of the experiment and simulation and give an outlook for further improvement of our algorithms for a better simulation of the empirical data.     «

In our contribution we present results of an experiment about route choice and spatial orientation of pedestrians, which we compare with simulation results from a microscopic model for pedestrian simulation. To map large-scale orientation of pedestrians, we extended this model by a navigation graph. We describe the basic model as well as the graph layer extension. We use this graph as a basis for different routing algorithms, thus modeling different types of pedestrians, for example ones being f...     »