Citation

Miguel AF. Phys. Life Rev. 2013; 10(2): 206-209.

Affiliation

Department of Physics, Evora University, Rua Romão Ramalho 59, 7000-671 Evora, Portugal; Geophysics Center of Evora (CGE), PO Box 84, 7002-554 Evora, Portugal. Electronic address: afm@uevora.pt.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.plrev.2013.05.006

PMID

23726357

Abstract

Pedestrians' world is not a static one, but rather one which is constantly in flux. The pedestrian dynamics is subject to a wide range of influences and displays an interesting phenomenology. Along with collective self-organization phenomena (e.g., streams of people, rivers of people, collective synchronization), there are also a multitude of applications in the context of crowd management, design of pedestrian facilities and urban planning. Here, I address comments from the discussants of my review paper from the viewpoint of elementary physics laws paying particular attention to the self-organization phenomena in crowds.

Language: en