A software environment for microscopic pedestrian simulation

The growth of both research on and the relevance of pedestrian simulation in the definition of strategies for urban planning increasingly reinforce its adoption and ultimate utility among practitioners and engineers. This paper reports on first steps and preliminarily results of the implementation of a platform for pedestrian simulation in multimodal exchange interfaces. Whereas most approaches in pedestrian simulation are aimed at studying intra and interactions among people using a common environment with different purposes and under different mobility restrictions, our research is focused on how those interactions will ultimately affect transportation operation at multimodal stations. This paper begins with a general overview of pedestrian simulation and focus on the microscopic representation of individuals and their interoperability as the basis for the implementation of our model.

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