Despite the extreme crowd density and intense pushing seen during the annual Traslación procession of the Black Nazarene icon ...

Understanding crowd dynamics can prevent disaster at cultural or sports events. Physicists investigating a recent crowd disaster in Germany found that one of the key causes was that at some point the ...

In the era of viral protests and hyper-connected citizenry, governments worldwide face unprecedented challenges. OP Singh, Indian Police Service officer and author of the forthcoming book ‘Crowd ...

Last Saturday night the Love Parade in Duisburg was supposed to be a celebration of music and revelry, but it turned into one of the most shocking crowd disasters of recent years. 21 people died and ...

Stampedes unfortunately occur on too regular a basis. Previously, physicists developed numerous models of crowd evacuation dynamics. Now, a new study outlines a procedure for quantitatively comparing ...