Modeling Planned and Unplanned Store Visits within a Framework for Pedestrian Movement Simulation

The main contribution of this paper is to introduce the implication of planned and unplanned store visits within a simulation framework of pedestrian movement simulation. In order to implement the activity agenda, pedestrian agents need to successively visit a set of stores, and move over the network. The focus is on the number of planned and unplanned store visits because that determines the activity agenda. The findings from the collected data of the number of planned and unplanned store visits indicate that this number depends of the motivation and some socio-economic characteristics of the visitor in the city center.