Disentangling the impact of social groups on response times and movement dynamics in evacuations.

Crowd evacuations are paradigmatic examples for collective behaviour, as interactions between individuals lead to the overall movement dynamics. Approaches assuming that all individuals interact in the same way have significantly improved our understanding of pedestrian crowd evacuations. However, t...

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Main Authors: Nikolai W F Bode, Stefan Holl, Wolfgang Mehner, Armin Seyfried
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4364745?pdf=render