Modelling of Pedestrian Queuing Behaviour Independent of Movement Model Utilising BDI Reasoning in ABAsim Architecture

In a pedestrian simulation models, the waiting for service represents special behaviour that should be carefully modelled. This paper presents an approach to the modelling of queuing behaviour of pedestrians with no modifications to the movement model. The queuing behaviour of a pedestrian is defined on the tactical layer of pedestrian's reasoning, leaving the operational movement model intact. This approach can then be easily adapted to microscopic, mesoscopic as well as hybrid movement models. Two-layer agent based architecture ABAsim with the support of BDI reasoning model of agents is utilized. Plans on the tactical layer of reasoning that define the queuing behaviour of agent will be discussed. Different types of queue creation and its automatic organisation independent of the movement model will be also presented.