Citation

Yu YF, Song WG. Phys. Rev. A 2007; 76(2): 026102-.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, American Physical Society)

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Abstract

Pedestrian flow is a complex system that changes with various interactions. This article reports on the use of a partition line in the counterflow system to present the default (conventional) traffic rule: pedestrians prefer to walk on a certain side on the road during movement, e.g., the right-hand side in China or the left-hand side in Japan. Based on the counterflow model of Takimoto (model A), the authors introduced two modified models, i.e., model B and C, to study the effects of a partition line in the consideration of people who do not obey the default traffic rule. These models show that the behavior of traffic rule breaking influences the counterflow more when it is at the choking flow state rather than at the free moving or stopped state. The authors also show that the default traffic rule is not always positive to the counterflow in all situations.