{"id":7723,"date":"2012-01-24T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingottawa.ca\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:26:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:26:33","slug":"urban-planet-pedestrian-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/24\/urban-planet-pedestrian-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Pedestrian behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25297\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Haj\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4304018900_3b72d6bb83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/?attachment_id=25153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/images\/line-grey-1pixel-600wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When trying to plan pedestrian environments, the answer may be to follow the crowd.\u00a0Mehdi Moussaid of the Max Planck Institute and\u00a0Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich study pedestrian behaviour. Using computer models and particle theory, they analyze decision making patterns of people travelling by foot. When encountering an oncoming pedestrian, will you choose to pass on the left or right? It turns out that factors such as density, culture and grouping have a significant impact on such decisions. As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21541709\">The Economist<\/a>\u00a0points out, understanding this behaviour could improve everything from traffic control to emergency evacuations to the\u00a0<em>haj.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omarsc\/\">Omar Chatriwala<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you&#8217;d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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When trying to plan pedestrian environments, the answer may be to follow the crowd.\u00a0Mehdi Moussaid of the Max Planck Institute and\u00a0Dirk<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/24\/urban-planet-pedestrian-behaviour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Pedestrian behaviour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5302],"tags":[4441,1504,882,4440,4442,4443,1731,550],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-dirk-helbing","tag-economist","tag-facebook","tag-max-planck-institute","tag-mehdi-moussaid","tag-omar-chatriwala","tag-twitter","tag-urban-planet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Pedestrian behaviour - Spacing Ottawa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/ottawa\/2012\/01\/24\/urban-planet-pedestrian-behaviour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Pedestrian behaviour - Spacing Ottawa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Urban Planet is\u00a0a daily roundup of\u00a0\u00a0blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. 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