Modeling Urban Panic

Schneier is reporting that Arizona State University's Paul Torrens has been developing a computer simulation to model urban panic. "The goal of this project is to develop a reusable and behaviorally founded computer model of pedestrian movement and crowd behavior amid dense urban environments, to serve as a test-bed for experimentation." The simulation tests behaviors from how a crowd flees from a burning car to how a pathogen might be transmitted through a mobile pedestrian over time among others.

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Re:Yes but can it model...

[morgan_greywolf]

Apparently, this can. (Linked in TFA)

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[Dan100]

to the research. Even better, the ASU press release went out seven months ago.