(PhysOrg.com) -- The Love Parade in Duisburg in western Germany on 24th July was supposed to be a night of music and celebration for the estimated 1.4 million revelers, but it became a catastrophe, ...

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, ...

In the era of viral protests and hyper-connected citizenry, governments worldwide face unprecedented challenges. OP Singh, Indian Police Service officer and author of the forthcoming book ‘Crowd ...

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 ...

Stampedes unfortunately occur on too regular a basis. Previously, physicists developed numerous models of crowd evacuation dynamics. Now, a new study outlines a procedure for quantitatively comparing ...

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 ...