From crowd dynamics to crowd safety: A video-based analysis

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-527

  Johansson, Anders ^a   Helbing, Dirk ^a   Al Abideen, Habib Z ^b   Al Bosta, Salim ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Crowd turbulence; Fundamental diagram; Pedestrian dynamics; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 52149100983     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525908001854     Document Type: Conference Paper

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