The walking behaviour of pedestrian social groups and its impact on crowd dynamics.

Human crowd motion is mainly driven by self-organized processes based on local interactions among pedestrians. While most studies of crowd behaviour consider only interactions among isolated individuals, it turns out that up to 70% of people in a crowd are actually moving in groups, such as friends,...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Moussaïd, Niriaska Perozo, Simon Garnier, Dirk Helbing, Guy Theraulaz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2850937?pdf=render