| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 334, 2025
Traffic and Granular Flow 2024 (TGF’24)
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| Article Number | 04018 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Pedestrian Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202533404018 | |
| Published online | 12 September 2025 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202533404018
“Pedestrians in a box”: A comparison to hard discs
1 University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
2 The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Published online: 12 September 2025
Abstract
We analyse the behaviour of pedestrians in a set of controlled experiments in which subjects were asked to move continuously in a closed square area, a scenario that we name “pedestrians in a box”. Since the size of the area and the number of pedestrians were changed between experimental sessions, this scenario resembles the treatment of a gas in statistical physics. We define a few statistical observables and compare the dynamics of the system to a gas of hard discs, which results to be able to reproduce some aspects of crowd dynamics in the high density setting, and discuss the meaning of our findings.
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