Modeling Heterogeneous Speed Profiles in Discrete Models for Pedestrian Simulation

We present a discrete model extending the floor field approach allowing heterogeneity in the walking speed of the simulated population of pedestrians. Whereas some discrete models allow pedestrians to move more than a single cell per time step, in the present work we maintain a maximum speed of one cell per step but we model lower speeds by having pedestrians yielding their movement in some turns. Different classes of pedestrians are associated to different desired walking speeds and we define a stochastic mechanism ensuring that they maintain an average speed close to this threshold.