The design of accessible walking routes needs to take into account the different stakeholders’ preferences and factors affecting walking. It is a complex issue which policy-makers should deal with to foster sustainable ...

Objective: to find out the causes of disuse of pedestrian bridges in Arequipa city. Methods: descriptive study based on a survey gathering data on age, gender level of education, origin and experience of previous accidents. ...

Objectives: Pedestrian crashes are a critical problem in Latin American countries. However, little research has been published about pedestrians and even less about their behaviors in a naturalistic context. The objective ...

We characterize the dynamics of runners in the famous “Running of the Bulls” Festival by computing the individual and global velocities and densities, as well as the crowd pressure. In contrast with all previously studied ...

The Social Force Model (SFM) is a suitable model for describing crowd behaviors under emotional stress. This research analyzes the role of the body force in the original SFM. We focused on the parameter associated with the ...

Random interactions among pedestrians, usually produced by psychological effects (e.g. anxiety), can produce collective nontrivial phenomena in their flow dynamics. Here, we improve our understanding on these phenomena by ...