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)	10:45–12:05   ML–1 (Hall 3)
23. Analysis of Staircase Emergency Evacuation of Pedestrian after Earthquake Xuheng Chen, Weiguo Song and Jun Zhang	27. Deep Learning Approach to Force-Based Modeling of Pedestrian Flow in Bottleneck Scenarios František Koutenský, Daniel Vašata and Pavel Hrabák
24. Exploring pedestrian nudging: Current advancements and future challenges Claudio Feliciani and Alessandro Corbetta	28. Variational Modeling for paths through static crowds Apoorva Singh, Rui M. Castro, Maarten Schoukens and Alessandro Corbetta
25. Spontaneous synchronization of motion in a group of marathon runners Hiroaki Furukawa, Hisashi Murakami and Kazutoshi Kudo	29. RL-Godot Pedestrian Simulation: Curriculum–Based Reinforcement Learning for Pedestrian Simulation Giuseppe Vizzari, Andrea Falbo, Ruben Tenderini and Daniela Briola
26. Nudging pedestrian choice behavior with light color in a train station Arco van Beek, Yan Feng, Serge Hoogendoorn and Dorine Duives	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)	13:05–14:25   MOD–3 (Hall 3)
31. Different ways of coordinating behavioral repertoires in crowds Anna Sieben, Mira Küpper, Tom Postmes and Armin Seyfried	35. Modelling the effect of adherence behaviour on infection spread in crowds Sophia Johanna Wagner and Gerta Köster
32. Improving Railway Platform Safety via Awareness Campaign Stephanie Baumann and Ernst Bosina	36. Emergent Phenomena Induced by Avoidance Behavior in Multi-Directional Pedestrian Flows Andreas Schadschneider, Priyanka Iyer, Rajendra Singh Negi and Gerhard Gompper
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	37. Glimpsing into the Fluid Mechanics of Crowds Featuring Route Choice and Collision Anticipation Alexandre Nicolas, Maël Le Garff and Jakob Cordes
34. Simulating and quantifying the influence of covert and explicit leaders on human crowd motion Kei Yoshida, Sina Feldmann and William H. Warren	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)	15:30–16:30   MOD–4 (Hall 3)
39. Specific flow rate at openings for pedestrians including slow walkers Kenichi Takayama and Tomoaki Nishino	42. Self-organisation in pedestrian dynamics simulation: a stochastic port-Hamiltonian approach Rafay Nawaid Alvi, Barbara Rüdiger and Antoine Tordeux
40. Mixed-Age Pedestrian Dynamics and Obstacle Avoidance Behaviors: An Experimental Analysis Jiaming Liu, Hui Zhang and Majid Sarvi	43. "Valency" model of pedestrian group behaviour Francesco Zanlungo and Zeynep Yucel
41. Experimental analysis of firefighters crossing multiple obstacles under smoke and heat environment Yixi Tao, Xuehua Song, Hang Yu, Weiguo Song and Jun Zhang	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   MOD–5 (Hall 3)	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	49. Evacuation simulations accounting for properties of the blended wing body aircraft Yuming Dong, Xiaolu Jia, Daichi Yanagisawa and Katsuhiro Nishinari
46. Density Dependent Gait Patterns in Crowds Carina Wings, Maik Boltes and Uwe G. Kersting	50. Wildfire Evacuation Modelling of Tourist Campsites Borja Darnaculleta, Enrico Ronchi, Amina Labhiri, Virginie Dréan, Bruno Guillaume and Eric Guillaume
47. Single-file pedestrian flows with free density Cecile Appert-Rolland and Julien Pettre	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
48. Balancing Data Needs in Pedestrian Dynamics Experiments: Crowd Size, Number of Trials, and Trial Duration Max Kinateder, Paul Geoerg and Nikolai Bode	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)	13:05–14:25   ML–2 (Hall 3)
53. Modulation of pedestrian velocity along curves: a comparison between dyads and individuals Adrien Gregorj, Zeynep Yucel, Francesco Zanlungo and Takayuki Kanda	57. Predicting the unseen: Improving robustness in Koopman surrogate models for crowd dynamics at a bottleneck Sabrina Kern and Gerta Köster
54. High Density Measurements from Ramadan at Makkah, 2025 Anders Johansson, Rainald Lohner, Juergen Bradatsch, Knut Haase, Salim Al Bosta and Muttlaq Elfaleh	58. Multi-level Crowd Estimation with Limited Data Yanyan Xu, Neil Yorke-Smith and Serge Hoogendoorn
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	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
56. Understanding pedestrian-geometry interactions via real-world measurements in variable environments Chiel van der Laan, Fenn Zeelenberg, Anjo Korthout and Alessandro Corbetta	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