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Crowds in front of bottlenecks at entrances from the perspective of physics and social psychology
Crowds in front of bottlenecks at entrances from the perspective of physics and social psychology
This article presents an interdisciplinary study of physical and social psychological effects on crowd dynamics based on a series of bottleneck experiments. Bottlenecks are of particular interest for applications such as crowd management and design of emergency routes because they limit the performa...
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Personal Name(s): | Adrian, Juliane (Corresponding author) |
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Seyfried, Armin / Sieben, Anna | |
Contributing Institute: |
Zivile Sicherheitsforschung; IAS-7 |
Published in: | Interface, 17 (2020) 165, S. 20190871 - |
Imprint: |
London
The Royal Society
2020
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DOI: |
10.1098/rsif.2019.0871 |
PubMed ID: |
32343932 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Computational Science and Mathematical Methods |
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Please use the identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/24789 in citations.
This article presents an interdisciplinary study of physical and social psychological effects on crowd dynamics based on a series of bottleneck experiments. Bottlenecks are of particular interest for applications such as crowd management and design of emergency routes because they limit the performance of a facility. In addition to previous work on the dynamics within the bottleneck, this study focuses on the dynamics in front of the bottleneck, more specifically, at entrances. The experimental set-up simulates an entrance scenario to a concert consisting of an entrance gate (serving as bottleneck) and a corridor formed by barriers. The parameters examined are the corridor width, degree of motivation and priming of the social norm of queuing. The analysis is based on head trajectories and questionnaires. We show that the density of persons per square metre depends on motivation and also increases continuously with increasing corridor width, meaning that a density reduction can be achieved by a reduction of space. In comparison to other corridor widths observed, the narrowest corridor is rated as being fairer, more comfortable and as showing less unfair behaviour. Pushing behaviour is seen as ambivalent: it is rated as unfair and listed as a strategy for faster access. |