Crowd movements during exceptional events

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Crowd movements during

exceptional events

Pedestrian events are frequently organised. Not all without casualties. Especially sports

events, music events and major pilgrimages cause the gathering of very large crowds where small triggers may lead to terrible results. Several pedestrian crowd events that became

disasters occurred in the last decade. While these events are organised on a regular basis, not a lot is known about the occurring pedestrian motions.

Expected contributions

 A more profound understanding of crowd dynamics

 Increased understanding of differences

between individual and crowd movements

 Improved crowd simulation model

 Crowd movement data

 Improvement data collection methodology

Step 1: Exploration of crowd motion

Step 2: Crowd motion models

Research methodology

Step 4: Behavioural principles

Deducing a set of behavioural assumptions

Step 5: Mathematical model

Design of the mathematical behavioural rules of a (new) simulation model.

Step 6: Implementation model

Develop a working crowd simulation model based on behavioural rules

Step 7: Calibration parameters

Optimizing the parameters of the model to best represent the behaviour of the crowd

Step 8: Validation case study

Step 3: Data collection

Crowd movement data are gathered throughout the course of 2-3 years at several major crowd events

Ir. D.C. Duives,

Dr. ir. W. Daamen

Prof. Dr. Ir. S.P. Hoogendoorn

Transport and Planning

Delft University of Technology 015-2783958, d.c.duives@tudelft.nl

Objectives

 To expand the knowledge on crowd movements

 To build a simulation model specially

developed for the simulation of crowd motion

 To provide the information to better

understand, predict and assess crowd movements before large crowd events in order to

Crowd movements during exceptional events