New insights into pedestrian flow through bottlenecks

Transportation Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 395-406

  Seyfried, Armin ^a   Passon, Oliver ^a   Steffen, Bernhard ^a   Boltes, Maik ^a   Rupprecht, Tobias ^b   Klingsch, Wolfram ^b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacity of bottlenecks; Pedestrian flow; Traffic and crowd dynamics; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY OF BOTTLENECKS; CROWD DYNAMICS; DESIGN AND DIMENSIONING; FUNDAMENTAL DIAGRAM; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; PEDESTRIAN FLOW; PLANNING GUIDELINES; TRAFFIC FLOW;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 70449638169     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1090.0263     Document Type: Article

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