Johansson, A;
Batty, M;
Hayashi, K;
Al Bar, O;
Marcozzi, D;
Memish, ZA;
(2012)
Crowd and environmental management during mass gatherings.
Lancet Infectious Diseases
, 12
(2)
150 - 156.
10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70287-0.
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Abstract
Crowds are a feature of large cities, occurring not only at mass gatherings but also at routine events such as the journey to work. To address extreme crowding, various computer models for crowd movement have been developed in the past decade, and we review these and show how they can be used to identify health and safety issues. State-of-the-art models that simulate the spread of epidemics operate on a population level, but the collection of fine-scale data might enable the development of models for epidemics that operate on a microscopic scale, similar to models for crowd movement. We provide an example of such simulations, showing how an individual-based crowd model can mirror aggregate susceptible-infected-recovered models that have been the main models for epidemics so far.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Crowd and environmental management during mass gatherings. |
| Location: | US |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70287-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(11)70287-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Computer Simulation, Crowding, Humans, Mass Behavior, Models, Theoretical |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1355382 |
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