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Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

Volume 14, 2023

Physics of Human Crowds

  • Alessandro Corbetta1 and Federico Toschi1,2
  • 1Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; email: [email protected][email protected] 2Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche-IAC, Rome, Italy
  • Vol. 14:311-333 (Volume publication date March 2023)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on November 30, 2022
  • Copyright © 2023 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information

Abstract

Understanding the behavior of human crowds is a key step toward a safer society and more livable cities. Despite the individual variability and will of single individuals, human crowds, from dilute to dense, invariably display a remarkable set of universal features and statistically reproducible behaviors. Here, we review ideas and recent progress in employing the language and tools from physics to develop a deeper understanding about the dynamics of pedestrians.

Keyword(s): active matter, emergent phenomena, human crowd dynamics, observational experiments, pedestrian flows, social physics
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