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Noise-induced instability of uniform flow in single-file traffic systems
Oscar Dufour, Alexandre Nicolas, David Rodney, Jakob Cordes, Andreas Schadschneider, Antoine Tordeux
PNAS Nexus (accepted)
2026
LEMONS: An open-source platform to generate non-circuLar, anthropometry-based pEdestrian shapes and simulate their Mechanical interactiONS in two dimensions
Oscar DUFOUR, Maxime STAPELLE, Alexandre NICOLAS
SciPost Physics Codebases
2026
Smart On-Street Parking: Survey of Actual Implementations in Cities and Insights from Practitioners
Enock NDUNDA, Alexandre NICOLAS
2026
Dense Crowd Dynamics and Pedestrian Trajectories: A Multiscale Field Study at the Fête des Lumières in Lyon
Oscar Dufour, Huu-Tu Dang, Jakob Cordes, Raphael Korbmacher, Gaudou Benoit, Mohcine Chraibi, Alexandre Nicolas, Antoine Tordeux
Scientific Data
2025
A Glossary for Research on Human Crowd Dynamics - 2nd Edition
Juliane Adrian et al.
Collective Dynamics
2025
Near-future projections in continuous agent-based models for crowd dynamics: mathematical structures in use and their implications
Iñaki ECHEVERRÍA-HUARTE, Antonin ROGE, Olivier SIMONIN and Alexandre NICOLAS
Journal of Statistical Mechanics
2025
Towards more reliable public transportation Wi-Fi Origin-Destination matrices: Modeling errors using synthetic noise and optical counts
Léa Fabre, Caroline Bayart, Alexandre Nicolas, Patrick Bonnel
Transportation Research Part C
2025
Model-Based Assessment of the Cruising Traffic and Environmental Impact of Parking Restrictions
Alexandre NICOLAS, Nilankur DUTTA, Léo BULCKAEN
Transportation Research Arena, Lecture Notes, Springer
2025
Viral transmission in pedestrian crowds: Coupling an open-source code assessing the risks of airborne contagion with diverse pedestrian dynamics models
Alexandre NICOLAS, Simon MENDEZ
Collective Dynamics
2024
Non-monotonic flow variations in a stylized (TASEP-based) traffic model featuring cars searching for parking
Valentin ANFRAY, Alexandre NICOLAS
Journal of Physics: Complexity
2024
Continuous agent-based modeling of adult-child pairs based on a pseudo-energy: relevance for public safety and egress efficiency
Chuan-Zhi XIE, Tie-Qiao TANG, Alexandre NICOLAS
Safety Science
2024
Dimensionless Numbers Reveal Distinct Regimes in the Structure and Dynamics of Pedestrian Crowds
Jakob CORDES, Andreas SCHADSCHNEIDER, Alexandre NICOLAS
PNAS Nexus
2024
Flux et écoulements complexes à travers le prisme de la physique statistique : des solides désordonnés aux véhicules, en passant par les foules piétonnes
Alexandre NICOLAS
Mémoire d'HDR
2024
Classification of Pedestrian Crowds by Dimensionless Numbers
Jakob CORDES, Alexandre NICOLAS, Andreas SCHADSCHNEIDER
Collective Dynamics
2024
Time-continuous microscopic pedestrian models: an overview.
Raphael Korbmacher, Alexandre Nicolas, Antoine Tordeux & Claudia Totzeck
Crowd Dynamics, Volume 4: Analytics and Human Factors in Crowd Modeling,
2023
Modeling of obstacle avoidance by a dense crowd as a Mean-Field Game
Matteo Butano, Thibault Bonnemain, Cécile Appert-Rolland, Alexandre Nicolas & Denis Ullmo
Proceedings of the 2022 TGF Conference
2023
From microscopic droplets to macroscopic crowds: Crossing the scales in models of short-range respiratory disease transmission, with application to COVID-19
Simon Mendez, Willy Garcia, Alexandre Nicolas
Advanced Science
2023
A roadmap for the future of crowd safety research and practice: Introducing the Swiss Cheese Model of Crowd Safety and the imperative of a Vision Zero target
Milad HAGHANI et al.
Safety Science
2023
Adult–child pairs walking down stairs: Empirical analysis and optimal-step-based modeling of a complex pedestrian flow, with an exploration of flow-improvement strategies
Chuan-Zhi Xie, Tie-Qiao Tang, Bo-Tao Zhang, Alexandre Nicolas
Journal of Statistical Mechanics (JSTAT)
2023
Parking search in the physical world: Calculating the search time by leveraging physical and graph theoretical methods
Nilankur DUTTA, Thibault CHARLOTTIN, Alexandre NICOLAS
Transportation Science
2023
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