Edinburgh Napier University

  The realistic simulation of pedestrian movement is a challenging problem, a large number of individual pedestrians may be included in the simulation. Rapid decisions must be made about the trajectory of each pedestrian in relation to the environment and other pedestrians in the vicinity. Parallel processing has allowed such simulations to include tens of thousands of pedestrian processes travelling across large areas. The multi-agent systems paradigm has recently been used to significant effect within pedestrian simulation, typically each pedestrian within the simulation equates to a specific agent.