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Simulating pedestrian behaviour in school zones - possibilities and challenges

As a transport mode, walking often plays an important part in daily trips, especially in terms of multimodality. Pedestrians have a large amount of autonomy, with numerous interactions, individually or in groups. Their behaviour is therefore hard to describe by models. Contrary to motor traffic, where everything is defined by regulations, this field of research also lacks proper legislation. Therefore, regular vehicle traffic models are not desirable to implement when demonstrating passenger behaviour. If the fact that pedestrians have different behaviour in normal and extreme conditions is added, researching pedestrian behaviour becomes even more complex. In traffic engineering, passenger behaviour modelling can be roughly distinguished into two groups – analytical models and simulation models. The analytical models describe walking by mathematical formulas, and simulation models describe it by a series of predefined passenger behaviour norms. This paper will firstly analyse literature to show the current state and possibilities to implement modern tools in modelling individual and collective passenger behaviour. The focus of research is in showing pedestrian behaviour in school zones, for which the PTV Vissim program will be used. The stated tool is ideal for traffic engineers, architects, consultants, managers, and every other person who considers passenger needs in their studies.

modelling ; pedestrian behaviour ; PTV Vissim ; school zone ; simulation

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