Crowd disasters as systemic failures: Analysis of the love parade disaster

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-40

  Helbing, Dirk ^a,b   Mukerji, Pratik ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading effect; Causality network; Crowd control; Crowd disaster; Crowd quake; Domino effect; Evacuation; Instability; Systemic risk

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); PLASMA STABILITY; TURBULENCE; VIDEO RECORDING;

CASCADING EFFECTS; CROWD CONTROL; CROWD DISASTER; CROWD QUAKE; DOMINO EFFECTS; EVACUATION; SYSTEMIC RISKS;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 84933502418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds7     Document Type: Article

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