Human stampedes are a major cause of mortality in mass gatherings, but they have
received limited scientific attention. While the number of publications has increased, there is …

Crowds can be subject to intrinsic and extrinsic sources of risk, and previous records have
shown that, in the absence of adequate safety measures, these sources of risk can …

Abstract Background and Objectives Hospitals are expected to provide a safe environment
for patients, visitors, and employees during emergencies and disasters, as well as provide …

Thousands of people have lost their lives in stampedes and other crowd related disasters in
recent years. Most of these fatalities seem to have been caused by poor control and …

The escape panic version of the Social Force Model (SFM) is a suitable model for describing
emergency evacuations. In this research, we analyze a real-life video, recorded at the …

Although some experimental evidence showed that an obstacle placed in front of a door
allows making people's evacuations faster, the efficacy of such a solution has been debated …

This article discusses recent work with fire ants, Solenopisis invicta, to illustrate the use of
the framework of active matter as a base to rationalize their complex collective behavior. We …

Human stampedes have been identified as a major hazard that could occur during
pedestrian evacuations around the world. This paper establishes an extended floor field …

We derive a hierarchy of kinetic and macroscopic models from a noisy variant of the heuristic
behavioral Individual-Based Model of Ngai et al.(Disaster Med. Public Health Prep. 3: 191 …

It is commonly believed that global patterns of motion in flocks, schools and crowds emerge
from local interactions between individuals, through a process of self-organization. The key …