Being stuck in a crowd can be an overwhelming experience. Physicists and computer scientists bring some order to the chaos. iStock From high above, a crowd of people looks much like a colony of ants ...

Crowd dynamics and evacuation simulation encompass the study of how individuals and groups move and interact within built environments, especially under emergency conditions. At their core, ...

Last Saturday night the Love Parade in Duisburg was supposed to be a celebration of music and revelry, but it turned into one of the most shocking crowd disasters of recent years. 21 people died and ...

How do pedestrians move in the street? How do they interact? Researchers in Europe have carried out a series of studies to improve understanding of the group behavior of pedestrians in urban ...