Multiscale Modeling of Pedestrian Dynamics

• 1 An Introduction to the Modeling of Crowd Dynamics.- 2 Problems and Simulations.- 3 Psychological Insights.- 4 An Overview of the Modeling of Crowd Dynamics.- 5 Multiscale Modeling by Time-Evolving Measures.- 6 Basic Theory of Measure-Based Models.- 7 Evolution in Measure Spaces with Wasserstein Distance.- 8 Generalizations of the Multiscale Approach.- 9 Appendices: A Basics of Measure and Probability Theory; B Pseudo-Code for the Multiscale Algorithm.

"The book is very well-written and contains many excellent illustrations. It is both a valuable introduction to the modeling of pedestrian dynamics and to the methods of multiscale modeling." (Martin Gugat, zbMATH 1314.00081, 2015)