Bentley Adds Pedestrian Simulator to Workflow
Emily Pollock posted on October 15, 2018 |
One day before Bentley’s 2018 Year in Infrastructure Conference, we heard news that the company has acquired pedestrian simulation software provider Legion.
Legion‘s pedestrian simulation software allows stakeholders to model interactions between pedestrians and their environments, letting stakeholders decide on designs that minimize congestion and make evacuation easier.
London-based Legion’s software models people’s step-by-step journeys through public spaces, including movement and both person/person and person/environment interactions. The software allows building stakeholders to look at crowd management, flow maps, and emergency evacuation procedures. Now, Bentley has acquired Legion and integrated it into Bentley’s OpenBuildings Designer (formerly known as AECOsim Building Designer), so that designers and architects can incorporate pedestrian movement when designing buildings, to solve congestion problems before they happen.
“Using LEGION and collaborative workflows with OpenBuildings Designer, our users can consider pedestrian simulations early on during conceptual design, during construction, during operation,” said Bhupinder Singh, chief product officer at Bentley.
The pedestrian flows are based on a combination of real-life data from closed-circuit TV cameras and sensors, and machine-learning programming used to extrapolate that data to…