An improved version of the Hughes model for pedestrian flow (Q2792802)

The authors present firstly a review on the modeling and analytic results of the classical Hughes model for pedestrian flow, in which the basic assumption is that the overall density of the crowd is known to every agent. Then they propose a local version of the Hughes model on the micro- and macroscopic level which includes local effects such as limited vision and a conviction toward decision making. Numerical simulations and experiments for both the microscopic and macroscopic models, and a comparison between the behavior and performance of the models are also addressed.