Understanding pedestrian crowd panic: A review on model organisms approach

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 12-17

  Shiwakoti, Nirajan ^a   Sarvi, Majid ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological entities; Crowd dynamics; Crowd safety; Egress; Evacuation; Traffic dynamics

Indexed keywords

PEDESTRIAN; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84867063101     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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