Physics of human crowds

A Corbetta, F Toschi - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the behavior of human crowds is a key step toward a safer society and more
livable cities. Despite the individual variability and will of single individuals, human crowds …

Social groups in pedestrian crowds: review of their influence on the dynamics and their modelling

A Nicolas, FH Hassan - Transportmetrica A: transport science, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pedestrians are often encountered walking in the company of some social relations, rather
than alone. The social groups thus formed, in variable proportions depending on the context …

Emergency and disaster management-crowd evacuation research

J Liu, Y Chen, Y Chen - Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes literatures on crowd evacuation based on data extracted from Web of
Science by applying bibliometric approaches. In specific, reference co-citation analysis …

Empirical methods in pedestrian, crowd and evacuation dynamics: Part II. Field methods and controversial topics

M Haghani - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
Following the review of the experimental methods and top emerging topics, here, studies
using the field data collection methods of pedestrian dynamics (April 2017-July 2019) are …

Monitoring physical distancing for crowd management: Real-time trajectory and group analysis

CAS Pouw, F Toschi, F van Schadewijk, A Corbetta - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Physical distancing, as a measure to contain the spreading of Covid-19, is defining a “new
normal”. Unless belonging to a family, pedestrians in shared spaces are asked to observe a …

Towards a socially acceptable collision avoidance for a mobile robot navigating among pedestrians using a pedestrian model

M Shiomi, F Zanlungo, K Hayashi, T Kanda - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Safe navigation is a fundamental capability for robots that move among pedestrians. The
traditional approach in robotics to attain such a capability has treated pedestrians as moving …

Walking behavior of pedestrian social groups on stairs: A field study

L Fu, S Cao, Y Shi, S Chen, P Yang, J Fang - Safety science, 2019 - Elsevier
There is growing consensus that most pedestrians in a crowd walk in groups, and these
groups have an influence on crowd dynamics whenever under natural or emergency …

Effective leadership for crowd evacuation

Y Ma, RKK Yuen, EWM Lee - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2016 - Elsevier
Evacuation leaders (individuals guiding the crowd) can make crowd evacuation more
efficient. Selecting their number and positions within the crowd is particularly important when …

Estimating density limits for walking pedestrians kee** a safe interpersonal distancing

I Echeverría-Huarte, A Garcimartín, RC Hidalgo… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
With people trying to keep a safe distance from others due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the
way in which pedestrians walk has completely changed since the pandemic broke out,. In …

[HTML][HTML] Macroscopic and microscopic dynamics of a pedestrian cross-flow: Part II, modelling

F Zanlungo, C Feliciani, Z Yücel, K Nishinari, T Kanda - Safety science, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we try to reproduce empirical results concerning the behaviour of a human
crowd in a cross-flow using a hierarchy of models, which differ in the details of the body …