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Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time

Kerridge, Jon; Keller, Stefan; Chamberlain, Tim; Sumpter, Neil

Authors

Jon Kerridge

Stefan Keller

Tim Chamberlain

Neil Sumpter



Contributors

N. Waldau-Drexler
Editor

P. Gattermann
Editor

H. Knoflacher
Editor

M. Schreckenberg
Editor

Abstract

The ability to collect pedestrian flow data, without the need for subsequent post-processing and analysis to extract measurements such as density and flow rate is a goal, which up to now, has proved infeasible on a large scale for a number of reasons, such as the cost of processing the data, the ability of the people observing the scene or subsequent video tapes and the effects of variation in the lighting conditions of the area being observed. A system using low cost infrared sensors is described that can be used to track the movement of pedestrians within their field of view and the resulting data stream is then used to generate density, flow-rate and speed data and instantaneous counts every two seconds. This data is displayed and also saved in a file. In addition, the path taken by each pedestrian can also be written to file for post-processing. The processing system associated with the sensors has been designed to be scalable from the outset and we describe how this has been achieved to ensure that it can be used in a variety of application environments.

Citation

Kerridge, J., Keller, S., Chamberlain, T., & Sumpter, N. (2007). Collecting Pedestrian Trajectory Data In Real-time. In N. Waldau-Drexler, P. Gattermann, H. Knoflacher, & M. Schreckenberg (Eds.), Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005 (27-39). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47064-9_3

Conference Name Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005
Conference Location Vienna
Start Date Sep 28, 2005
End Date Sep 30, 2005
Publication Date 2007
Deposit Date Jul 19, 2019
Journal Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005
Publisher Springer
Pages 27-39
Book Title Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47064-9_3
Keywords pedestrian behaviour; trajectory data; density; flow-rate; speed; pedestrian flow data
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1978035