Is the neighborhood of interaction in human crowds metric, topological, or visual?

ABSTRACT: Global patterns of collective motion in bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds are thought to emerge from local interactions within a neighborhood of interaction, the zone in which an individual is influenced by their neighbors. Both metric and topological neighborhoods have been reported in animal groups, but this question has not been addressed for human crowds. The answer has important implications for modeling crowd behavior and predicting crowd disasters such as jams, crushes, and stampedes. In a metric neighborhood, an individual is influenced by all neighbors within a fixed radius, whereas in a topological neighborhood, an individual is influenced by a fixed number of nearest neighbors, regardless of their physical distance. A recently proposed alternative is a

SUBMITTER: Wirth TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187661 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature