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most citedThe Dynamics of Crowd Disasters: An Empirical Study

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physics.soc-ph20086 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph20083 cited

Specification of the social force pedestrian model by evolutionary adjustment to video tracking data

Anders Johansson, Dirk Helbing, Pradyumn Shukla

Based on suitable video recordings of interactive pedestrian motion and improved tracking software, we apply an evolutionary optimization algorithm to determine optimal parameter s…

physics.soc-ph2008

Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Ant Behavior Under Crowded Conditions

Karsten Peters, Anders Johansson, Audrey Dussutour +1

Swarm intelligence is widely recognized as a powerful paradigm of self-organized optimization, with numerous examples of successful applications in distributed artificial intellige…

physics.data-an200839 cited

Approximate Hamiltonian Statistics in One-dimensional Driven Dissipative Many-Particle Systems

Martin Treiber, Dirk Helbing

This contribution presents a derivation of the steady-state distribution of velocities and distances of driven particles on a onedimensional periodic ring. We will compare two diff…

physics.soc-ph200826 cited

Analytical Calculation of Critical Perturbation Amplitudes and Critical Densities by Non-Linear Stability Analysis of a Simple Traffic Flow Model

Dirk Helbing, Mehdi Moussaid

Driven many-particle systems with nonlinear interactions are known to often display multi-stability, i.e. depending on the respective initial condition, there may be different outc…

physics.soc-ph20082 cited

A Power Law for the Duration of High-Flow States in Heterogeneous Traffic Flows

Dirk Helbing, Benno Tilch

We study the duration of "high-flow states" in freeway traffic, defined as the time periods for which traffic flows exceed a given flow threshold. Our empirical data are surprising…