Pedestrian Walking Characteristics Through Angled Corridors An Experimental Study

Abstract

Understanding pedestrian walking characteristics is important for the planning and design of mass gathering places for day-to-day activities as well as for emergency evacuations. The optimization of architectural designs and properly managing crowds at public buildings and the built environment is essential to ensure the safety and efficiency of crowd dynamics. Most previous empirical and theoretical studies highlight the behavior of a crowd as a whole system (macroscopic behavior) or interpersonal microscopic interactions within the crowd. A major gap in the knowledge is that no sufficient research has been carried out to examine solo walking characteristics, particularly when individual pe..