A Multi-Layer Navigation Approach for Interactive Pedestrian Flow Simulation in Digital Twins

Christoph Nellinger, Jan Marius Stürmer, Tobias Koch

2025

Abstract

Pedestrian flow simulation is crucial for accurately depicting daily activities and dynamics of infrastructures, such as town halls, train stations, or airports. Current pedestrian flow models often lack the capability to interact with environmental changes in real-time or only focus on one-directional interactions via prescribed events. To address this limitation, we propose a hybrid approach that combines graph-based methods for large-scale navigation with the optimal steps model for small-scale navigation and locomotion of agents. This combination enables dynamic updates according to environmental changes provided by other simulations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach in an exemplary airport architecture where pedestrian simulation is coupled with an electrical simulation, resulting in a successful bidirectional coupling. Specifically, we consider a scenario where a saboteur agent meddles with an electrical circuit, causing a ripple effect that impacts pedestrian behavior.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nellinger C., Stürmer J. and Koch T. (2025). A Multi-Layer Navigation Approach for Interactive Pedestrian Flow Simulation in Digital Twins. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH; ISBN 978-989-758-759-7, SciTePress, pages 295-304. DOI: 10.5220/0013555700003970

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech25,
author={Christoph Nellinger and Jan Stürmer and Tobias Koch},
title={A Multi-Layer Navigation Approach for Interactive Pedestrian Flow Simulation in Digital Twins},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH},
year={2025},
pages={295-304},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013555700003970},
isbn={978-989-758-759-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH
TI - A Multi-Layer Navigation Approach for Interactive Pedestrian Flow Simulation in Digital Twins
SN - 978-989-758-759-7
AU - Nellinger C.
AU - Stürmer J.
AU - Koch T.
PY - 2025
SP - 295
EP - 304
DO - 10.5220/0013555700003970
PB - SciTePress