8:00–9:00   Registration
9:00–9:15   Welcoming
9:15–10:15   Keynote lecture 1 (Hall 1)
Data acquisition from pedestrian experiments
Maik Boltes
10:15–10:45   Coffee break
10:45–12:05   Exp–1 (Hall 2)
10:45–12:05   CM (Hall 3)
1. Experimental study on safety distance for pedestrians under different interaction angles
Liangchang Shen, Jialin Wu, Yushan Song, Jiayue Wang and Wenguo Weng
5. System Identification for Designing a Crowd Danger Controller in a Metro Station During Large Passenger Flow
Jun Zhang, Dongdong Shi, Lu Hu, Wei Yang and Jian Ma
2. Quantifying Contact Pressure in High Competitive Pedestrian Evacuations
Iñaki Echeverria-Huarte, Angel Garcimartín, Diego Maza and Iker Zuriguel
6. Crowd Simulations Beyond Evacuation Applications: A Use Case Study for Departure Scenarios at Major Events
Jette Schumann and Hauke Schmidt
3. Experimental Study on Pushing Propagation in Moving Pedestrian Queues
Yushan Song, Haiyang Huang, Liangchang Shen and Wenguo Weng
7. The people at the gates: an analysis of the reasons of pedestrian flow management success in train stations at the Olympic Paris 2024 Games
Capucine-Marin Dubroca-Voisin
4. Collision avoidance when people encounter each other at a bottleneck
Ann Katrin Boomers and Maik Boltes
8. A holistic guiding system for pedestrians: a proof of concept
Christina Maria Mayr and Gerta Koester
12:05–13:05   Lunch

13:05–14:25   BEH–1 (Hall 2)
13:05–14:25   MOD–1 (Hall 3)
9. VR-based Experimental Study on Interactions and Behaviors of Luggage-Carrying Pedestrians in High-Speed Railway Stations
Yuqi Liao and Qi Zhang
13. A game-theoretic perspective on how pedestrian behaviour changes with crowd density
Tao Jin, Ryan Palmer and Nikolai Bode
10. A virtual experiment on pedestrian risk assessment in the presence of different threats
Hang Yu, Nikolai Bode, Weiguo Song and Jun Zhang
14. Pedestrian behavior model considering gaze and head direction
Ryo Sasaki, Shohei Yasuda and Takashi Fuse
11. Validating applicability of VR technology to predict guidance effectiveness of crowd-control measures: A VR experiment to reproduce an empirical experiment
Shuhei Miyano
15. Bridging Empirical Research and Standards in Pedestrian Dynamics: Towards Enhanced Verification and Validation
Mohcine Chraibi, Alessandro Corbetta, Claudio Feliciani and Bryan Klein
12. Investigation of dynamic social influence in human crowd motions based on Crowdsourced VR experiments
Jieyu Chen, Ruggiero Lovreglio and Nan Li
16. Open Access Crowd Simulations Using a Humanoid Paradigm
Thomas Chatagnon and Xiaoyun Shang

14:25–14:30   Coffee break

14:30–15:30   Poster session

15:30–16:30   EXP–2 (Hall 2)
15:30–16:30   MOD–2 (Hall 3)
17. Inhomogeneities in dense crowds: a case study on active and passive pedestrians
Mira Küpper and Juliane Adrian
20. Interaction of 3D pedestrian flow in a congested railway station: Structural estimation based on Mean Field Game theory
Takahiro Matsunaga and Eiji Hato
18. Understanding Pedestrian Congestion in Merging Corridors:A Speed and Velocity Variance Approach
Jiawei Zhang, Sakurako Tanida, Xiaolu Jia, Claudio Feliciani, Daichi Yanagisawa and Katsuhiro Nishinari
21. Comparative Analysis of Evacuation Strategies: Awareness and Pathfinding
Álvaro Serrano, Giuseppe Vizzari and Marin Lujak
19. Impacts of Water Depth on Pedestrian Speed, Gait, and Stability: results from an experimental study
Xintong Li, Weiguo Song, Jun Zhang and Nikolai Bode
22. Learning mid-term human navigation through crowds
Celine Finet, Jean-Bernard Hayet, Ioannis Karamouzas and Julien Pettre


19:00–20:00  Social event
9:00–9:15   Short info
9:15–10:15   Keynote lecture 2 (Hall 1)
Bridging Physics and AI: Learning Pedestrian Dynamics from Video Data
He Wang
10:15–10:45   Coffee break
10:45–12:05   EXP–3 (Hall 2)

23. Analysis of Staircase Emergency Evacuation of Pedestrian after Earthquake
Xuheng Chen, Weiguo Song and Jun Zhang

24. Exploring pedestrian nudging: Current advancements and future challenges
Claudio Feliciani and Alessandro Corbetta

25. Spontaneous synchronization of motion in a group of marathon runners
Hiroaki Furukawa, Hisashi Murakami and Kazutoshi Kudo

26. Nudging pedestrian choice behavior with light color in a train station
Arco van Beek, Yan Feng, Serge Hoogendoorn and Dorine Duives
10:45–12:05   ML–1 (Hall 3)

27. Deep Learning Approach to Force-Based Modeling of Pedestrian Flow in Bottleneck Scenarios
František Koutenský, Daniel Vašata and Pavel Hrabák

28. Variational Modeling for paths through static crowds
Apoorva Singh, Rui M. Castro, Maarten Schoukens and Alessandro Corbetta

29. RL-Godot Pedestrian Simulation: Curriculum–Based Reinforcement Learning for Pedestrian Simulation
Giuseppe Vizzari, Andrea Falbo, Ruben Tenderini and Daniela Briola

30. Generative Agents in Crowd Simulation: A Cognitive Approach with Large Language Models
Nizar Ntarouis and Roland Geraerts
12:05–13:05   Lunch
13:05–14:25   BEH–2 (Hall 2)

31. Different ways of coordinating behavioral repertoires in crowds
Anna Sieben, Mira Küpper, Tom Postmes and Armin Seyfried

32. Improving Railway Platform Safety via Awareness Campaign
Stephanie Baumann and Ernst Bosina

33. Crowding Perceptions at Large Business Events: Insights from Beacons and Surveys
Sakurako Tanida, Hyerin Kim, Claudio Feliciani, Xiaolu Jia, Akira Takahashi, Tetsuya Aikoh and Katsuhiro Nishinari

34. Simulating and quantifying the influence of covert and explicit leaders on human crowd motion
Kei Yoshida, Sina Feldmann and William H. Warren
13:05–14:25   MOD–3 (Hall 3)

35. Modelling the effect of adherence behaviour on infection spread in crowds
Sophia Johanna Wagner and Gerta Köster

36. Emergent Phenomena Induced by Avoidance Behavior in Multi-Directional Pedestrian Flows
Andreas Schadschneider, Priyanka Iyer, Rajendra Singh Negi and Gerhard Gompper

37. Glimpsing into the Fluid Mechanics of Crowds Featuring Route Choice and Collision Anticipation
Alexandre Nicolas, Maël Le Garff and Jakob Cordes

38. Simulating crossing pedestrian flows with a vision-based model of collision avoidance
Sina Feldmann, Kyra Veprek and William H. Warren
14:25–14:30   Coffee break
14:30–15:30   Poster session
15:30–16:30   EXP–4 (Hall 2)

39. Specific flow rate at openings for pedestrians including slow walkers
Kenichi Takayama and Tomoaki Nishino

40. Mixed-Age Pedestrian Dynamics and Obstacle Avoidance Behaviors: An Experimental Analysis
Jiaming Liu, Hui Zhang and Majid Sarvi

41. Experimental analysis of firefighters crossing multiple obstacles under smoke and heat environment
Yixi Tao, Xuehua Song, Hang Yu, Weiguo Song and Jun Zhang
15:30–16:30   MOD–4 (Hall 3)

42. Self-organisation in pedestrian dynamics simulation: a stochastic port-Hamiltonian approach
Rafay Nawaid Alvi, Barbara Rüdiger and Antoine Tordeux

43. "Valency" model of pedestrian group behaviour
Francesco Zanlungo and Zeynep Yucel

44. Modeling metastable dynamics of dyads from large-scale data
Chiel van der Laan, Tom Harmsen and Alessandro Corbetta
16:30–17:30   Steering
19:00–22:00   Conference dinner
9:00–9:15   Short info
9:15–10:15   Keynote lecture 3 (Hall 1)
Coupling the fire and evacuation simulations – needs, challenges and possibilities
Simo Hostikka
10:15–10:45   Coffee break
10:45–12:05   EXP–5 (Hall 2)

45. Emergence of motion synchronization in pedestrian crowds
Yi Ma, Meng Shi, Eric Lee and Richard Yuen

46. Density Dependent Gait Patterns in Crowds
Carina Wings, Maik Boltes and Uwe G. Kersting

47. Single-file pedestrian flows with free density
Cecile Appert-Rolland and Julien Pettre

48. Balancing Data Needs in Pedestrian Dynamics Experiments: Crowd Size, Number of Trials, and Trial Duration
Max Kinateder, Paul Geoerg and Nikolai Bode
10:45–12:05   MOD–5 (Hall 3)

49. Evacuation simulations accounting for properties of the blended wing body aircraft
Yuming Dong, Xiaolu Jia, Daichi Yanagisawa and Katsuhiro Nishinari

50. Wildfire Evacuation Modelling of Tourist Campsites
Borja Darnaculleta, Enrico Ronchi, Amina Labhiri, Virginie Dréan, Bruno Guillaume and Eric Guillaume

51. The Lecture Hall Example as a Reference for Evacuation Simulations – An Updated Study
Angelika Kneidl, Burkhard Forell, Gerald Grewolls, Rainer Koennecke, Andreas Winkens and Tim Meyer-König

52. How does the computational speed of pedestrian models depend on the characteristics of the simulated scenario?
Martijn Sparnaaij, Dorine Duives and Serge Hoogendoorn

12:05–13:05   Lunch

13:05–14:25   EXP–6 (Hall 2)

53. Modulation of pedestrian velocity along curves: a comparison between dyads and individuals
Adrien Gregorj, Zeynep Yucel, Francesco Zanlungo and Takayuki Kanda

54. High Density Measurements from Ramadan at Makkah, 2025
Anders Johansson, Rainald Lohner, Juergen Bradatsch, Knut Haase, Salim Al Bosta and Muttlaq Elfaleh

55. Expected evacuation distance affects the evacuation efficiency of crowds in super high-rise buildings: an empirical analysis
Yayun You, Zhiming Fang, Jun Zhang, Weiguo Song and Wei Lv

56. Understanding pedestrian-geometry interactions via real-world measurements in variable environments
Chiel van der Laan, Fenn Zeelenberg, Anjo Korthout and Alessandro Corbetta
13:05–14:25   ML–2 (Hall 3)

57. Predicting the unseen: Improving robustness in Koopman surrogate models for crowd dynamics at a bottleneck
Sabrina Kern and Gerta Köster

58. Multi-level Crowd Estimation with Limited Data
Yanyan Xu, Neil Yorke-Smith and Serge Hoogendoorn

59. Probabilistic Time-Series Crowd Forecasting at Scheveningen Beach, The Netherlands
Theivaprakasham Hari, Winnie Daamen, Yanan Xin, Sascha Hoogendoorn-Lanser, Jeroen Steenbakkers and Serge Paul Hoogendoorn

60. Micro-Scale Spatial Modification and Pedestrian Behavior
Calvin Breseman, Francesco Zanlungo, Igor Moiseev and David Woollard

14:25–15:00   Closing

15:00–16:30   Farewell drink