Shoulder Rotation of Pedestrians passing a Bottleneck

Understanding pedestrian dynamics is crucial to the design of pedestrian facilities. Although pedestrian flows are part of everyday life, many basic characteristics of pedestrian dynamics cannot yet be described in detail.
The aim of the PhD project is to study the upper body rotation of pedestrians when crossing a narrow passage (bottleneck). Since the movement pattern of individuals differs significantly in individual movement, small groups, and crowds, correlations and transitions from free movement of an individual to restricted movement in crowds during traversal will be investigated.
It is expected that the analysis of the physical parameters is subject to the influence of social interaction. Furthermore, it is expected that, as a consequence, parameters such as the timing of deceleration or motivation change the motion sequence and thus the shoulder rotation in the bottleneck. The host supervisor, Dr. Max Kinateder, has been conducting research on human visual perception for a long time. Among other things, how behaviour in emergency situations is controlled by the social and architectural environment. Dr. Kinateder’s expertise provides the opportunity to extend the analysis of physical parameters to include social aspects and those of perception, thus laying the foundation for new model ideas.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Max Kinateder

Student:

Partner:

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Transportation (excluding aerospace); Advanced Computing

University:

Carleton University

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