About the Authors

Maria Davidich

maria.davidich@siemens.com

Affiliation Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Gerta Köster

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Competing Interests

Dr. Maria Davidich is a Siemens AG employee. Siemens AG has provided the clearance to publish the paper as it is. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The methods described in the following patent were used to assign sources and targets to pedestrians in this study. However, the patent is unrelated to the core subject of the study: M. Davidich “Method and device for assigning sources and sinks to routes of individuals” EP Patent 2,447,882//US Patent App. 13/285,759, 2011, Publication date 2011/10/31. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD. Performed the experiments: MD. Analyzed the data: MD GK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD. Wrote the paper: MD GK.