Simulation of Pedestrians Crossing a Street

Abstract

The simulation of vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian dynamics meanwhile both have a decades long history. The success of this conference series, PED and others show that the interest in these topics is still strongly increasing. This contribution deals with a combination of both systems: pedestrians crossing a street. In a VISSIM simulation for varying demand jam sizes of vehicles as well as pedestrians and the travel times of the pedestrians are measured and compared. The study is considered as a study of VISSIM's con ict area functionality as such, as there is no empirical data available to use for calibration issues. Above a vehicle demand threshold the results show a non-monotonic dependence of pedestrians' travel time on pedestrian demand.