MassMotion

It's the only tool that can predict the movement of hundreds of thousands of individual personalities in a complex 3D environment.

 

MassMotion Benefits

•	The most advanced pedestrian simulation and crowd analysis tool available anywhere. Capable of simulating hundreds of thousands of people within a matter of hours, reducing simulation time by several days
•	Communicate complex problems in a highly visual manner
•	Save time, money and manpower during the planning phase of multi-billion pound projects

 

What will MassMotion do for you?

Our leading technology  provides designers, operators, and owners with clear information about crowding, usage patterns, and occupant safety in a facility. This predictive power enables positive decisions to be made early in the design process with minimum cost and disruption. As designs evolve or issues arise, MassMotion can be used to conduct scenario testing for further optimization of the program and form of a project.

MassMotion set up

You can either construct the model in MassMotion or import a 3D model from a wide range of products including AutoCAD, MicroStation, Sketch-Up, Rhino and Revit. You then identify floors, barriers, links and portals along with the profiles of the ‘agents’ such as speed, tasks, volume etc. In the simulation stage you can then model hundreds of thousands of agents, each of whom has their own agenda and will respond to changes in real time. For example they may choose to take the stairs when faced with congestion at an escalator, or join the queue for a turnstile that has just switched from closed to open.

 

Due MassMotion’s 64-bit multi-threaded design which takes full advantage of multi-core processors and any available RAM, you can model huge crowds, and because changes to geometry are automatically computed, you can easily test, re-design, re-test without the burden of lengthy remodelling or reprocessing cycles. All this on an ordinary desktop PC.

 

The simulation is based on academic research, supported by observed crowd behaviour and rendered with gaming quality graphics.

 

Analysis

Once the simulation has completed you can use the analysis tool to examine how long it took people to get from one point to another, the flow rates for doors, stairs and escalators, and the comfort rating in different parts of the model and at different times. All this can be output as easy to understand graphs and visuals.

 

Key Features

•	The ONLY fully 3-dimensional program of its kind, built with gaming quality graphics
•	True way finding - the ONLY program that has the ability to program individual personalities with unique agendas from start to finish in their journey through the environment