Background. The three terms “panic”,“irrationality”, and “herding” are ubiquitous in the crowd
dynamics literature and have a strong influence on both modelling and management …

Highlights•Experiences of collective action can lead to psychological changes which are
sustained by group support and communication.•Riots can spread via shared identity among …

Physical distancing, as a measure to contain the spreading of Covid-19, is defining a “new
normal”. Unless belonging to a family, pedestrians in shared spaces are asked to observe a …

Automatic analysis and the recognition and prediction of the behaviour of large-scale
crowds in video-surveillance data is a research field of paramount importance for the …

Evacuation models can adopt different approaches for the simulation of human behaviour in
fire. This paper provides an overview of the most commonly used modelling methods to …

This work is a systematic review of optimisation methods for pedestrian evacuations. The
focus is on interventional approaches that seek to improve evacuation efficiency rather than …

Overcrowding and stampedes may occur in public places with the gathering of crowds. To
mitigate and prevent risk, the accident mechanism and methods for monitoring and …

Crowd models can be used for the simulation of people movement in the built environment.
Crowd model outputs have been used for evaluating safety and comfort of pedestrians …

Pedestrians will increasingly have to share their space with autonomous vehicles (AVs), at
pedestrian crossings, and in urban shared spaces where segregation between pedestrians …

Lane formation in bidirectional pedestrian streams is based on a stimulus–response
mechanism and strategies of navigation in a fast-changing environment. Although …