{"id":11230,"date":"2015-12-03T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/solutions\/planning-consulting\/pedestrian-modelling\/pedestrian-modelling-action\/"},"modified":"2015-12-24T05:38:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T10:38:48","slug":"pedestrian-modelling-action","status":"publish","type":"service","link":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/services\/pedestrian-modelling\/pedestrian-modelling-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Modelling in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"editor-emphasized\">Dynamic modelling allows the recreation of real-life movements of people and crowds within the computer simulation environment. A typical pedestrian simulation model should consist of three main &#8216;ingredients&#8217;: layout, pedestrian numbers and pedestrian behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The model can take into account a number of variables including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time &#8211; The simulation can robustly imitate a real-life operation or performance of a building with its users over time<\/li>\n<li>Different walking speeds &#8211; Not everyone walks with the same speed. Children, elderly, people with heavy luggage or with other movement restrictions generally walk slower than typical commuters of a metro station in rush hours. Consideration of how quickly or slowly different people walk can be replicated in the simulation.<\/li>\n<li>People sizes &#8211; People need more or less space when they move throughout an area. This can be replicated in the simulation model, with the following taken into consideration:\n<ul>\n<li>Footprint size \u2013 people with luggage or bicycles would occupy more space than those without<\/li>\n<li>Personal space needs \u2013 highly variable, can be related to cultural differences between different countries<\/li>\n<li>Crowding \u2013 people can accept reduced size of personal space in particular situations such as when travelling on a busy train or in the lift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results of this type of assessment are usually measurable and allow detailed analysis in for any particular given time period for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space utilisation<\/li>\n<li>Densities<\/li>\n<li>Crowding and congestion<\/li>\n<li>Queuing<\/li>\n<li>Processing<\/li>\n<li>Flow rates<\/li>\n<li>Walk and clearance time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using this technique can allow numerous scenarios to be assessed at any stage in the design and planning process, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evacuation (standard or with one or more exit routes blocked)<\/li>\n<li>Future growth in pedestrian numbers for any given year<\/li>\n<li>Comparison of alternative design layouts<\/li>\n<li>Comparison of alternative operational parameters<\/li>\n<li>Special events<\/li>\n<li>Construction phasing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aecom.com\/content\/solutions\/planning-consulting\/pedestrian-modelling\/\">Back to Pedestrian Modelling<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dynamic modelling allows the recreation of real-life movements of people and crowds within the computer simulation environment. A typical pedestrian simulation model should consist of three main &#8216;ingredients&#8217;: layout, pedestrian numbers and pedestrian behaviour. The model can take into account a number of variables including: Time &#8211; The simulation can robustly imitate a real-life operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11244,"parent":11227,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-11230","service","type-service","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/11230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/service"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/11230\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/11227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aecom.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}