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Dirk Helbing
Researcher at ETH Zurich
Publications - 660
Citations - 64533
Dirk Helbing is an academic researcher from ETH Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Traffic flow & Microscopic traffic flow model. The author has an hindex of 101, co-authored 642 publications receiving 56810 citations. Previous affiliations of Dirk Helbing include PARC & Max Planck Society.
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Social Force Model for Pedestrian Dynamics
Dirk Helbing,Péter Molnár +1 more
TL;DR: Computer simulations of crowds of interacting pedestrians show that the social force model is capable of describing the self-organization of several observed collective effects of pedestrian behavior very realistically.
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Simulating dynamical features of escape panic
TL;DR: A model of pedestrian behaviour is used to investigate the mechanisms of panic and jamming by uncoordinated motion in crowds, and an optimal strategy for escape from a smoke-filled room is found, involving a mixture of individualistic behaviour and collective ‘herding’ instinct.
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Congested traffic states in empirical observations and microscopic simulations
TL;DR: It is shown that the results of the microscopic model can be understood by formulating the theoretical phase diagram for bottlenecks in a more general way, and a local drop of the road capacity induced by parameter variations has essentially the same effect as an on-ramp.
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Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems
Dirk Helbing,Dirk Helbing +1 more
TL;DR: This article considers the empirical data and then reviews the main approaches to modeling pedestrian and vehicle traffic, including microscopic (particle-based), mesoscopic (gas-kinetic), and macroscopic (fluid-dynamic) models.
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Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities
Luís M. A. Bettencourt,José Lobo,Dirk Helbing,Christian Kühnert,Geoffrey B. West,Geoffrey B. West +5 more
TL;DR: Empirical evidence is presented indicating that the processes relating urbanization to economic development and knowledge creation are very general, being shared by all cities belonging to the same urban system and sustained across different nations and times.