From Crowds to Crises

Material available for the students of the course "From Crowds to Crises" 2010 FS. More material will be added during the course.

• Pedestrian dynamics

• to be added

• Crowd dynamics and crowd disasters

• Efficient response to cascading disaster spreading

• From crowd monitoring to crowd management

• Pedestrian, Crowd and Evacuation Dynamics_Helbing

• Freeway traffic flow and control

• Autonomous Detection and Anticipation of Jam Fronts from Messages Propagated by Intervehicle Communication

• Models of urban congestion dynamics with rerouting

• Operation regimes and slower-is-faster effect in the control of traffic intersections
• Adaptive cruise control design for active congestion avoidance
• Theoretical vs. empirical classification and prediction of congested traffic states

• Urban traffic dynamics and self-organized traffic light control

• Self-control of traffic lights and vehicle flows in urban road networks
• Derivation of a fundamental diagram for urban traffic flow

• Breakdown or spreading of social cooperation and punishment

• to be added

• How greed can stimulate or destroy social coherence

• to be added

• Modeling the spreading of norms and conflict

• The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions

• Systemic instabilities and disaster spreading

• Systemic Risks in Society and Economics

• From congestion spreading to bankruptcy cascades

• Transient Dynamics Increasing Network Vulnerability to Cascading Failures

• Norms, conflict, and madness of crowds

• Evolutionary dynamics of populations with conflicting interactions: Classification and analytical treatment considering asymmetry and power