Fear may spread over a crowd in a similar fashion as contagious diseases do in social
groups. People in a life-threatening situation may express fear alerting others of imminent …

We propose and analyze a family of epidemiological models that extend the classic
Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered/Removed (SIR)-like framework to account for dynamic …

The evacuation of human crowds consisting of several groups in complex venues is studied,
in this paper, by the kinetic theory of active particles. We consider a complex venue that …

We propose a kinetic model for understanding the link between opinion formation
phenomena and epidemic dynamics. The recent pandemic has brought to light that vaccine …

Large crowds evacuating through narrow bottlenecks may create clogging and jams that
slow down the egress flow. Especially if people try to push towards the exit, the so-called …

Understanding how contact patterns arise from crowd movement is crucial for assessing the
spread of infection at mass gathering events. Here we study contact patterns from Wi-Fi …

Though carrying considerable economic and societal costs, restricting individuals' traveling
freedom appears as a logical way to curb the spreading of an epidemic. However, whether …

The analysis of contagion–diffusion processes in metapopulations is a powerful theoretical
tool to study how mobility influences the spread of communicable diseases. Nevertheless …

During pandemic events, strategies such as social distancing can be fundamental to reduce
simultaneous infections and mitigate the disease spreading, which is very relevant to the risk …

Crowd dynamics have important applications in evacuation management systems relevant
to organizing safer large scale gatherings. For crowd safety, it is very important to study the …