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From Crowd Dynamics to Crowd Safety: A Video-Based Analysis
Anders Johansson, Dirk Helbing, Habib Z. Al-Abideen +1
The study of crowd dynamics is interesting because of the various self-organization phenomena resulting from the interactions of many pedestrians, which may improve or obstruct the…
Crowd turbulence: the physics of crowd disasters
Dirk Helbing, Anders Johansson, Habib Z. Al-Abideen
The panic stampede is a serious concern during mass events like soccer championship games. Despite huge numbers of security forces and crowd control measures, hundreds of lives are…
The Dynamics of Crowd Disasters: An Empirical Study
Dirk Helbing, Anders Johansson, Habib Zein Al-Abideen
Many observations in the dynamics of pedestrian crowds, including various self-organization phenomena, have been successfully described by simple many-particle models. For ethical…