Towards Microscopic Calibration of Pedestrian Simulation Models Using Open Trajectory Datasets: The Case Study of the Edinburgh Informatics Forum

The investigation of crowd behaviours in normal and emergency situations has been greatly facilitated by various agent-based pedestrian models. Those models are built upon different assumptions in order to represent or mimic reality. One of the key challenges in pedestrian modelling is the verification of those assumptions or the best model specification by using existing datasets and suitable calibration approaches.