Adding Higher Intelligent Functions to Pedestrian Agent Model

Abstract

Pedestrian dynamics studies have brought the potential for application to a wide variety of urban planning field, not only crowd accident risk analysis but also simulation-oriented spatial design. Our up-versioned ASPF (Agent Simulator of Pedestrian Flows) ver.4 has newly introduced higher function such as a target maintaining (Helmsman) function, a route-choice function etc. into a pedestrian agent. In an example case of patio-shaped shopping mall, Asunal Kanayama, we have verified that pedestrian agents can walk autonomously along way points to destination points in a complicated space, and that ASPFver.4 can be a useful tool for ordinary commerce space design. We also refer to the ASSA (Agent Simulator of Shop Around) project for implementing much higher functions.