How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6884-6888

  Moussaïd, Mehdi ^a,b,c   Helbing, Dirk ^b,d   Theraulaz, Guy ^a,c  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective behavior; Decision making; Individual based model; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CROWDING; DISASTER; PEDESTRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL INFORMATION; WALKING SPEED;

CROWDING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79955558826     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016507108     Document Type: Article

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