Introduction to Pedestrian Movement

As cities become more densely populated there is increasing interest in predicting and understanding fine scale pedestrian movement to help plan cities and design more effective transport infrastructure. Literature contains many pedestrian models developed for specific applications such as emergency egress, but few which provide generic modelling solutions applicable to transport interchange facilities or pedestrian use of urban spaces under both normal and adverse conditions.

This website describes the work done during a PhD to develop a pedestrian model which allows the integration of current research methodologies within a general modelling framework. JPed simulations can encompass not only collision and pre-computed way finding algorithms, but elements of pedestrian movement not typically found in current agent based models such as dynamic way-finding, use of cognitive maps, agent vision and social interaction.