Pedestrian Movement Tracking and Tracing in Public Space

Abstract

Abstract: Population increase in the Urban areas made crowd management a hot topic today. Pedestrian decision making and movement patterns are critical in a variety of application domains. Mass event planning, mass gathering, individual location planning, and public space planning need to know how actual pedestrian movement happens. For planning such areas, architects and planners are keen on understanding empirical data of the pedestrian movements, and it is important for planning and designing public spaces. The paper discusses the investigation carried out in a workshop to capturing empirical data of pedestrian movements in public space in China. It addressed the outcome of tracking and tracing pedestrian movement in temple premises with traditional methods vs. available technology. Further, this is an attempt to discuss the pros and cons of current trends in technology of movement tracking and tracing and its implication towards Architecture, Urban Design, and Urban Planning. KeyWords: Pedestrian movement, Public space, Tracking and tracing