Evaluating pedestrian density and speed based on areas

You can determine the density and speed of pedestrians and show them, together with other attributes, in the result lists Area Results and Ramps Results.

In addition, you have the following options to evaluate pedestrian density and speed:

grid-based (Grid-based evaluation of pedestrian density and speed).
for each individual pedestrian In this case, density is based on the pedestrians that at the end of an evaluation interval are located within a radius around a pedestrian (Showing pedestrians in the network in a list).

Density and speed are determined for the following network objects:

Pedestrian Areas
Ramps & Stairs
On moving walkways or escalators, pedestrians are evaluated only on the moving parts of the network object and not on the entry and exit landings.
Links for which the attribute Is pedestrian area has been selected.

by default, the data for all pedestrian classes is entered together. You can also show the data for certain pedestrian classes separately in the evaluation (Configuring evaluations of the result attributes for lists).

You can save the following data and data formats:

Output	ASCII file	MDB table	Attribute file from attribute list
Aggregated data	-	-
Raw data	-	-	-

Show result attributes in attribute lists (Displaying result attributes in attribute lists)
Show result attributes in a result list (Showing result attributes in result lists)

1. From the Evaluation menu, choose > Configuration > Result Attributes tab.

2. In the Areas & ramps row, select Collect data.

3. If desired, change the time and/or the interval (Configuring evaluations of the result attributes for lists).

4. Confirm with OK.

5. Start the simulation (Running a simulation).

6. If desired, from the Evaluation menu, choose > Result Lists > Area Results or Ramp Results (Output attributes of area and ramp evaluation).

Attributes of aggregated data output

Result attribute Long name	Short name	Description
Number of pedestrians (maximum)	NumPedsMax	Maximum number of pedestrians that were in the area, on ramp or stairs
Number of pedestrians (minimum)	NumPedsMin	Minimum number of pedestrians that were in the area, on ramp or stairs
Number of pedestrians (average)	NumPedsAvg	Average number of pedestrians that were in the area, on ramp or stairs
Number of pedestrians waiting for PT (maximum)	NumPedsWaitingPTMax	Maximum number of pedestrians who were waiting for a PT vehicle in the area, on the ramp or stairs
Number of pedestrians waiting for PT (minimum)	NumPedsWaitingPTMin	Minimum number of pedestrians who were waiting for a PT vehicle in the area, on the ramp or stairs
Number of pedestrians waiting for PT (average)	NumPedsWaitingPTAvg	Average number of pedestrians who were waiting for a PT vehicle in the area, on the ramp or stairs
Walk-out count	WalkOutCnt	Number of pedestrians leaving the construction element Pedestrians from pedestrian inputs and pedestrians alighting from PT vehicles are not counted.
Density	Density	Pedestrian density in area, on ramp or stairs
Walk-in count	WalkInCnt	Number of pedestrians walking on construction element Pedestrians from inputs and pedestrians alighting from PT vehicles are not counted.
Density experienced	DensityExp	Pedestrian density experienced within the perception radius of a pedestrian: Number of other pedestrians within a radius around the pedestrian.
Area	Area	in Area evaluation results list only: area number
Speed All types	Speed(All)	average pedestrian speed, all pedestrian types, is calculated as the harmonic mean
Speed variance	SpeedVar	Vectorial speed differences of all pedestrians within the personal environment radius of their own speed (Selecting network settings for pedestrian behavior)
Ramp/Stairs	Ramp	in Ramp evaluation results list only: ramp or stairs number
Simulation run	SimRun	Number of simulation run
Time interval	TimeInt	Duration of the evaluation intervals in which the data is aggregated
If for areas, you selected the Queues attribute, you may additionally output the following result attributes via queues:
Queue length (maximum)	QueueLenMax	Length and time information on the queues
Queue length (minimum)	QueueLenMin
Queue length (average)	QueueLenAvg
Time in queue (maximum)	TmInQueueMax
Time in queue (minimum)	TmInQueueMin
Time in queue (average)	TmInQueueAvg