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Crowd Disasters as Systemic Failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster
Dirk Helbing, Pratik Mukerji
Each year, crowd disasters happen in different areas of the world. How and why do such disasters happen? Are the fatalities caused by relentless behavior of people or a psychologic…
q-fin.ST2012★ 2 cited
Universality class of balanced flows with bottlenecks: granular flows, pedestrian fluxes and financial price dynamics
Daniel R. Parisi, Didier Sornette, Dirk Helbing
We propose and document the evidence for an analogy between the dynamics of granular counter-flows in the presence of bottlenecks or restrictions and financial price formation proc…