Traffic instabilities in self-organized pedestrian crowds

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Moussaïd, Mehdi ^a,b   Guillot, Elsa G ^a   Moreau, Mathieu ^a   Fehrenbach, Jérôme ^c   Chabiron, Olivier ^c   Lemercier, Samuel ^d   Pettré, Julien ^d   Appert Rolland, Cécile ^e   Degond, Pierre ^c   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SOCIETIES; BEHAVIORAL MECHANISMS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; EMERGENT ORGANIZATION; EXTERNAL CONTROL; HUMAN CROWD; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; SELF-ORGANISED; TRAFFIC EFFICIENCY; WALKING DIRECTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; PEDESTRIAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC INSTABILITY; TRAFFIC SELF ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR; WALKING SPEED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84861126231     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002442     Document Type: Article

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