Evacuation processes of walkers (pedestrians) and crawlers are investigated by experiment and simulation. The experiments are performed for walkers and crawlers evacuating from the corridor (channel) with an exit. All students go on all fours in the evacuation experiment of crawlers. The video...

We study the unidirectional flow of a binary mixture of biased-random walkers on square lattice under a periodic boundary. The lattice–gas mixture consists of two types of walkers which have different biases (drift coefficients). The characteristics of unidirectional flow are clarified...

We study the behavior of walkers sidling through the crowd in the counter flow of pedestrian. When a walker enters the crowd, he turns himself sidelong to avoid a collision and edge through the crowd. The biased random walk model is extended to take into account the sidle effect. We present...

We study the traffic states and jamming transitions induced by a bus (slow car) in a two-lane traffic of cars. We use the dynamic model which is an extended one of the optimal velocity model to take into account the lane changing. The fundamental (flow-density) diagram is presented. The...

We study the counter flow of slender particles on square lattice under a periodic boundary where each particle consists of 1×n sites. Two types of particles going to the right and to the left are taken into account. The characteristics of counter flow are clarified numerically. The jamming...

We study the transformation of a traveling jam with the pulse form in the single-lane traffic flow by using the optimal velocity model. The jam propagates with changing the initial form. It is shown that the pulse jam at the initial stage changes to the three types of nonlinear waves, appearing...

A multi-phase traffic model is presented to take into account the complex motion of vehicles. The multi-phase model is one of the extended optimal velocity model. The optimal velocity (OV) function is modified to have multi turning points. The original OV model with a single turning point...

We study the traffic states and jams induced by a slowdown of vehicles in a single lane highway. We use an extended one of the optimal velocity model to take into account the slowdown in a section of highway. The fundamental (flow-density) diagram is calculated. The flow (current) increases...

The evacuation process from a dark room with an exit is investigated by the use of the biased random walk model. We clarify the statistical properties of the walker escaping from the room through the exit. The evacuation from the room without visibility consists of two processes: (1) the biased...

We study the traffic states and jams induced by a slowdown of vehicles in a single-lane highway. The two-stage optimal velocity model is used in which the optimal velocity function has two turning points. The fundamental (flow-density) diagrams are calculated. At low density, the flow (current)...