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Dynamics of pedestrians in regions with no visibility - a lattice model without exclusion
We investigate the motion of pedestrians through obscure corridors where the
lack of visibility (due to smoke, fog, darkness, etc.) hides the precise
position of the exits. We focus our attention on a set of basic mechanisms,
which we assume to be governing the dynamics at the individual level. Using a
lattice model, we explore the effects of non-exclusion on the overall exit flux
(evacuation rate). More precisely, we study the effect of the buddying
threshold (of no-exclusion per site) on the dynamics of the crowd and
investigate to which extent our model confirms the following pattern revealed
by investigations on real emergencies: If the evacuees tend to cooperate and
act altruistically, then their collective action tends to favor the occurrence
of disasters.Comment: 20 page