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Pathfinder

Pedestrian movement clarity without complication

Model crowd movement scenarios where people enter, move through and exit indoor and outdoor environments.

2025.1 - Improved scenario support

Pathfinder 2025.1 adds further support for scenario-based workflows, import of PDF geometry references, and a flurry of other user experience improvements.

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Why Pathfinder?

Pathfinder offers a complete set of tools to import, model and analyze pedestrian movement. Each pedestrian in a Pathfinder model adapts to their surroundings, reacting to changes in door availability, environmental cues, signage, alerts and more. Our intuitive interface allows you to design simulations in almost any public safety or crowd modeling scenario.

We validate and publish our own tests to ensure Pathfinder is consistent with research data. You can even run our test suite or create your own model suitability data using the Python based scripting toolkit.

Pathfinder scales to the size and complexity of your project. Simple experiments can be set up in minutes. Once you've learned how to set up your simulation, Pathfinder helps you stay organized. Create one file with different scenarios. Test the impact of random initial conditions using our enhanced sensitivity analysis features.

Thunderhead Engineering supports you every step of the way. Do crowd modeling with greater efficiency and proficiency with a wide range of documents to help.

We believe Pathfinder will quickly win you over. Try a fully featured trial free for 30 days.

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PyroSim and Pathfinder allow our team to streamline our model builds, use unique techniques and approaches, and provide clean and concise output data. The software saves us time through many of the powerful features, which translates to both cost and time savings to our clients.

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