Discretization effects and the influence of walking speed in cellular automata models for pedestrian dynamics

We study discretization effects in cellular automata models for pedestrian dynamics by reducing the cell size. Then a particle occupies more than one cell which leads to subtle effects in the dynamics, e.g. non-local conflict situations. Results from computer simulations of the floor field model are compared with empirical findings. Furthermore, the influence of increasing the maximal walking speed vmax is investigated by increasing the interaction range beyond nearest neighbour interactions. The extension of the model to vmax>1 turns out to be a severe challenge which can be solved in different ways. Four major variants are discussed that take into account different dynamical aspects. The variation of vmax has a strong influence on the shape of the flow–density relation. We show that walking speeds vmax>1 lead to results which are in very good agreement with empirical data.

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