Gentle Coupling of Pedestrian Behavior Model Implementations: a Pedestrian Simulator Interoperability Protocol

Pedestrian flow simulations are a modern method for computationally predicting pedestrian behavior. In contemporary research, the development of new and sophisticated hybrid pedestrian behavior models is ongoing. These models couple other pedestrian behavior models into a single concept. However, it was shown that a coupling of different models not only leads to alterations of the simulator software architecture, which is a legit approach, but also enforces an avoidable change of the pedestrian behavior model implementations. Here we show that our developed interoperability protocol enables researchers to integrate hybrid models in a pedestrian simulator without changing original behavior model implementations.

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