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Using a Telepresence System to Investigate Route Choice Behavior

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Traffic and Granular Flow '11

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A combination of a telepresence system and a microscopic traffic simulator is introduced. It is evaluated using a hotel evacuation scenario. Four different kinds of supporting information are compared: standard exit signs, floor plans with indicated exit routes, guiding lines on the floor and simulated agents leading the way. The results indicate that guiding lines are the most efficient way to support an evacuation but the natural behavior of following others comes very close. On another level the results are consistent with previously performed real and virtual experiments and validate the use of a telepresence system in evacuation studies. It is shown that using a microscopic traffic simulator extends the possibilities for evaluation, e.g. by adding simulated humans to the environment.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the research project “The Pedestrian Simulation VISSIM within a Telepresence System” within the Central Innovation Programme for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ZIM) of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).

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  1. PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG, Stumpfstr. 1, D-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Tobias Kretz & Stefan Hengst

  2. Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Laboratory (ISAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Antonia Pérez Arias, Simon Friedberger & Uwe D. Hanebeck

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  1. Tobias Kretz
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Correspondence to Tobias Kretz .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Computer Science, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Valery V. Kozlov

  2. Moscow State Automobile & Road Technical University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander P. Buslaev

  3. Russian Academy of Sciences, Electronics Institute and Kotel’nikov Radioengineeering, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander S. Bugaev

  4. Mathematical Cybernetics Department, Moscow Technical University of Communications & Informatics, Moscow, Russia

    Marina V. Yashina

  5. Universität Köln, Institut Theoretische Physik, Köln, Germany

    Andreas Schadschneider

  6. und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen Physik von Transport, Duisburg, Germany

    Michael Schreckenberg

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Kretz, T., Hengst, S., Arias, A.P., Friedberger, S., Hanebeck, U.D. (2013). Using a Telepresence System to Investigate Route Choice Behavior. In: Kozlov, V., Buslaev, A., Bugaev, A., Yashina, M., Schadschneider, A., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Traffic and Granular Flow '11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39669-4_14

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