How to move human crowds

How to move human crowds

Human crowd at the San Fermìn festival in Pamplona in Spanish. Researchers have discovered a law on their example. © Bartolo Lab/ Ens de Lyon

Close crowds develop an own dynamic that can become a fatal danger. In 2010, 21 people were squeezed to death at the Loveparade in Duisburg and hundreds were seriously injured. So far, the collective movement patterns of such quantities have been considered chaotic and unpredictable. But a study now shows that the movements

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