February 2017

An effort-based evaluation of pedestrian route choice

Route choice is one of the main challenging problems from theoretical and practical viewpoints in the realm of pedestrian behaviour. A prime underlying concern of researchers in this field is to identify criteria or discover principles that pedestrians use to select their routes. Despite the fact that there are infinite possible routes between two given destinations in space, pedestrians in real situations tend to...

Author(s): Fatma Al-Widyan, Ahmed Al-Ani, Nathan Kirchner and Michelle Zeibots