In a nutshell Crowds naturally form organized lanes when most people walk in two main directions, but become chaotic when ...
Neat lanes are the norm at road crossings – until people start veering off at critical angles, then chaos ensues. New maths ...
Have you ever wondered why walking from point A to B can be easy in some places, and incredibly frustrating in others? Well, ...
In the ebb and flow of crowded crosswalks, a surprising pattern emerges: people can naturally form neat lanes of movement.
Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from ...
What's more, they found that the more disorder there is in a crowd, the less efficiently it moves. The team plans to test their predictions on real-world crowds and pedestrian thoroughfares.