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From Drivers to Athletes -- Modeling and Simulating Cross-Country Sking Marathons
Traffic flow of athletes in classic-style cross-country ski marathons, with
the Swedish Vasaloppet as prominent example, represents a non-vehicular system
of driven particles with many properties of vehicular traffic flow such as
unidirectional movement, the existence of lanes, and, moreover, severe traffic
jams. We propose a microscopic acceleration and track-changing model taking
into account different fitness levels, gradients, and interactions between the
athletes in all traffic situations. The model is calibrated on microscopic data
of the Using the multi-model open-source simulator
MovSim.org, we simulate all 15 000 participants of the Vasaloppet during the
first ten kilometers.Comment: 8 pages, contribution to the conference Traffic and Granular Flow '13
in Juelich. Will be included in the Conference proceedings (Springer