  The Social Force Model of pedestrian dynamics is formulated in a way that a)
most of its parameters do not have an immediate interpretation, b) often one
single parameter has an impact on many aspects of walking behavior and c) a
certain aspect of walking behavior results from the values of more than one
parameter. This makes calibration difficult. The aim of this paper is to give
practitioners an indication of how to proceed in the calibration process. For
this by analytical transformations the parameters of the Social Force Model are
related to real properties that have a clear and immediate meaning and which
are also highly relevant result properties of a simulation: extent and
clearance time of a queue, respectively maximum density and capacity flow. The
theory for this is presented as well. As a side effect it can give a deeper
understanding of the model for everyone interested in theoretical aspects.
