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Author
Sime, J. D.
Title
Crowd Psychology and Engineering.
Coporate
Jonathan Sime Associates, Surrey, UK
Journal
Safety Science, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1-14, 1995
Keywords
psychology | risk assessment | psychological factors | people movement | human behavior | ingress | disasters | egress | panic | escape means | evacuation | subways
Identifiers
engineering crowd safety; crowd egress and the concept of 'panic'; examples of research of crowd egress in fires; time to escape; times of crowd movement in 5 evacuations of an underground station (in minutes:seconds); simulating and evaluating crowd behavior and movement