Experimental study on the movement characteristics of individuals through angled corridors with different speeds and directions

Abstract

Understanding the movement characteristics of pedestrians is essential for the management of mass gatherings. In this work, a series of experiments were conducted to study the movement of individuals through angled corridors with sharp-turn and curved-turn sections. The influence of different angled-corridors on the offset of trajectory, speeds, and the turning point is studied. An inward offset for pedestrians around the turning sections is observed regardless of movement speeds and directions. It is also found that the distance to the turning points (the relative difference between the selected reference points and turning points) in running is greater than that in normal walking. For clockwise and anticlockwise movements, there are no significant differences for different radii when walking. The results can be used as validation bases and behaviour rules for the microscopic pedestrian models.

KEYWORDS:

• Movement characteristics
• pedestrian dynamics
• turning properties
• angled corridors

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number U1933105, 52074252, 72174189, 72001095], China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [grant number 2020M681507], the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number WK2320000043, WK2320000050] and Opening Fund of State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) [grant number HZ2021-KF03].