Introduction to crowd science

This well-grounded and practical guide highlights the underlying causes of crowd disasters and mass fatalities--living readers insight into the root causes of crowd related accidents. It presents a clearer understanding of crowd dynamics and provides the reader with fundamental modeling techniques t...

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Main Author: Still, G. Keith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL CRC Press [2013]
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Call Number :HM 871 .S75 2014

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505 0 |a 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 
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