If you are in charge of a large group of people in a public space, you need to understand Crowd Dynamics - how, why, where and when crowds form and move in places of public assembly.
"The crowd dynamics courses were invaluable enabling me to illustrate quickly and precisely any issues that arose at the venues we attended and pass on my recommendations to the security team in a manner the was easily understood." Dave Wilkie, Event Safety Officer, U2 360 European Tour
I teach event professionals (police, security, promoters, licensing authorities) to apply the science of Crowd Dynamics, drawing on over the twenty years of intensive research and extensive experience from around the world. Topics include overcrowding in public space, accidents and incidents, causes and prevention of crowd related disasters and much, much more.
“As a silver/bronze commander in charge of major events in both a large busy city and a football stadium, I feel confident that I can now plan and prepare to ensure a safer ingress, circulation and egress of crowd. Thanks for this course.” - UK Police Commander
The more that people that know about, understand, and can apply the principles of crowd dynamics, the safer we can all build and manage places of public assembly.
This work began Jan 6th 2010 and is work in progress. See www.CrowdDynamics.org
The Hyper links will take you to a sample page - signing into the Moodle Course will allow you to sit an exam for accreditation.
UPDATE - 4th March 2010 for full course details send email to GKStill@me.com
Crowd Dynamics E-Learning
1 Crowd Dynamics e-Workshop (CD-EW)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Static Crowd Density
1.3 Modelling
1.4 Dynamic Crowd Density
1.5 Networks and Circulation
1.6 Matrix Analysis
1.7 Queueing, Ingress and Egress
1.8 Site Egress
2 Basic Maths (CD-BM)
2.1 Areas
2.2 Averages
2.3 Percentages
2.4 Spreadsheets
2.5 Graphs
2.6 Advanced Mathematics
3 Understanding Crowds (CD-UC)
3.1 Design
3.2 Information
3.3 Management
3.4 Ingress
3.5 Circulation
3.6 Egress
3.7 Modes
4 Site Modelling (CD-SM)
4.1 Spatial
4.2 Network Analysis
5 Crowd Modelling (CD-CM)
5.1 Flow Modelling
5.2 Agent Based models
6 Mass Gatherings (CD-MG)
6.1 Legal aspects of mass gatherings
6.2 Planning mass gatherings
6.3 Infrastructure of mass gatherings
6.4 Crowd dynamics and behaviour
6.5 Major Incident management
7 Public Order Policing (CD-POP)
7.1 Crowd Behaviour
7.2 Human Rights
7.3 Legislation
7.4 Use of Force
7.5 Case Studies
8 Real-Time Decision Support (CD-RTDS)
8.1 Fill Monitoring and Fill Prediction
8.2 Emergency Evacuation
9 Applied Crowd Dynamics e-Workshop (CD-AW)
Event Planner (CD-EP)
1 Training Course for Event Planner operators
1.1 Defining the Site
1.2 Defining the Resource Allocation
1.3 Dynamic Risk Mapping
1.4 Report Generation