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Constrained Linear Movement Model (CALM): Simulation of passenger movement in airplanes
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Constrained Linear Movement Model (CALM): Simulation of passenger movement in airplanes

Mehran Sadeghi Lahijani, Tasvirul Islam, Ashok Srinivasan and Sirish Namilae
PL o S One, Vol.15
15
2020
PMCID: PMC7058282
PMID: 32134966
Web of Science ID: WOS:000535265600038

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Abstract

Pedestrian dynamics models the walking movement of individuals in a crowd. It has recently been used in the analysis of procedures to reduce the risk of disease spread in airplanes, relying on the SPED model. This is a social force model inspired by molecular dynamics; pedestrians are treated as point particles, and their trajectories are determined in a simulation. A parameter sweep is performed to address uncertainties in human behavior, which requires a large number of simulations. The SPED model’s slow speed is a bottleneck to performing a large parameter sweep. This is a severe impediment to delivering real-time results, which are often required in the course of decision meetings, especially during emergencies. We propose a new model, called CALM, to remove this limitation. It is designed to simulate a crowd’s movement in constrained linear passageways, such as inside an aircraft. We show that CALM yields realistic results while improving performance by two orders of magnitude over the SPED model.
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