Research on pedestrian crowd characteristics and behaviours in peak-time on Chinese campus

Abstract

The Level of Service (LOS) is an important and necessary in evaluation on pedestrian crowd characters. It is necessary to obtain the parameters for evaluation on the facilities by analyzing the pedestrian crowd characteristics. In China, there are many crowded sites, and the authorities of government take seriously on traffic sites considering the public use, along with economic development. In crowded sites, both making analysis on pedestrian crowd traffic characteristics and to verify the LOS of the related sites, are important in practice. In this article, in peak-time on Chinese campus, some sites may assemble pedestrian crowd, information of pedestrian crowd are surveyed, which are obtained from digital files of video cameras. By observation and measurement, the traffic environments and pedestrian traffic parameters including speed, density and volume, can be obtained. Then the relationships between parameters and the distributions of the parameters are analyzed, which is the basement of calculating the LOS of the spots and facilities and modelling. Subsequently, pedestrian crowd traffic characteristics in different sites could be supervised easily. Furthermore, pedestrian crowd behaviours and characteristics would be analyzed in details with more attention. As a result, it is used for reference on management in daily work and the same to decision-making on evacuation of pedestrian crowd in emergency.