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2019
Please use the identifier:
http://hdl.handle.net/2128/23387 in citations.
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11440-4_26 in citations.
Influence of Gender on the Fundamental Diagram and Gait Characteristics
Influence of Gender on the Fundamental Diagram and Gait Characteristics
The crowd structures in different public places or mass events are diverse. Areas with a large fraction of children, elderly pedestrians, or women, who are always referred to as vulnerable groups, will require higher standard for facility design and emergency evacuation. The fundamental diagram and...
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Personal Name(s): | Wang, Jiayue (Corresponding author) |
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Boltes, Maik / Seyfried, Armin / Tordeux, Antoine / Zhang, Jun / Ziemer, Verena / Weng, Wenguo | |
Contributing Institute: |
Zivile Sicherheitsforschung; IAS-7 |
Published in: |
Traffic and Granular Flow '17 |
Imprint: |
Cham
Springer International Publishing
2019
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Physical Description: |
225-234 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-11440-4_26 |
Conference: | Traffic and Granular Flow '17, Washington, DC (US), 2017-07-19 - 2017-07-22 |
Document Type: |
Contribution to a book Contribution to a conference proceedings |
Research Program: |
Computational Science and Mathematical Methods |
Link: |
OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11440-4_26 in citations.
The crowd structures in different public places or mass events are diverse. Areas with a large fraction of children, elderly pedestrians, or women, who are always referred to as vulnerable groups, will require higher standard for facility design and emergency evacuation. The fundamental diagram and gait characteristics, the basic properties for pedestrian traffic flow and human stepping locomotion, respectively, are essential for facility design and emergency evacuation. Therefore to investigate the influence of gender on the fundamental diagram and gait characteristics is one step to improve facility design and public safety. In this paper, results from experiments on single-file movements involving male and female youngsters are introduced. The fundamental diagram and gait characteristic parameters such as free-flow speed, stop space (minimal required distance to the preceding person), and free-flow space (minimal required distance to walk at free-flow speed) are analyzed considering the impacts of gender. It is found that males have significantly larger stop space and smaller free-flow space than females even if these differences are small. Besides, the gait characteristics between males and females are compared. |