@article{ref1, title="The Hughes model for pedestrian dynamics and congestion modelling", journal="IFAC-PapersOnLine", year="2017", author="Carlini, Elisabetta and Festa, Adriano and Silva, Francisco J.", volume="50", number="1", pages="1655-1660", abstract="In this paper we present a numerical study of some variations of the Hughes model for pedestrian flow under different types of congestion effects. The general model consists of a coupled non-linear PDE system involving an eikonal equation and a first order conservation law, and it intends to approximate the flow of a large pedestrian group aiming to reach a target as fast as possible, while taking into account the congestion of the crowd. We propose an efficient semi-Lagrangian scheme (SL) to approximate the solution of the PDE system and we investigate the macroscopic effects of different penalization functions modelling the congestion phenomena.

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", language="en", issn="2405-8963", doi="10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.333", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.333" }