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Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event SitesIntroduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents around the world. Using tools, methods, and worked examples gleaned from over 20 years of experience, this text provides an understanding of crowd safety. It establishes how crowd accidents and incidents
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Crowd
risk
analysis
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In
Figures
2.2
and
2.3,
the
graphics
show
characters
of
50
×
30
cm
from
a
top-down
view.
The
characters
are
standing
still,
and
are
all
facing
in
the
same
direction
and
standing
in
the
same
way.
The
distribution
of
charac-
ters
is
uniform
(evenly
spaced)
and
all
characters
in
the
graphics
are
exactly
of
the
same
size.
Obviously,
this
is
nothing
like
a
real
crowd
of
real
people,
but
it
does
help
visualise
crowd
density.
Higher-density
crowds
At
higher
densities,
the
crowd
packing
obviously
becomes
closer,
to
the
point
of
people
being
in
physical
contact
with
each
other.
We
have
illustrated
this
Figure
2.3
(a)
Three
people
per
square
metre.
(b)
Four
people
per
square
metre.
These
are
downward
views
of
standing
people.
(Author’s
graphic.)
Figure
2.2
(a)
One
person
per
square
metre.
(b)
Two
people
per
square
metre.
These
are
downward
views
of
standing
people.
(Author’s
graphic.)
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Author
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Crowd risk analysis
- Chapter 3: Causality
- Chapter 4: Crowd science
- Chapter 5: Crowd and event modelling
- Chapter 6: Case studies and examples
- Chapter 7: Control room applications
- Chapter 8: The way forward
- Appendix A: Essential crowd safety mathematics
- Appendix B: The disaster database
- Appendix C: Web resources
- Appendix D: DIM-ICE meta model (summary)
- Back Cover