Crowd Dynamics, Volume 4 Analytics and Human Factors in Crowd Modeling

Behavioral Human Crowds and Society (Gibelli).- The mathematical theory of Hughes’ model: a survey of results (Rosini).- Time-continuous microscopic pedestrian models: an overview (Totzeck).- Empirical investigations on the role of psychological factors in pedestrian route choice (Tong).- Social human collective decision-making (Melnik).- Single-file pedestrian dynamics: a review of agent-following models (Schadschneider).- State-of-the-art passengers survey examining passengers’ crowd behavior in emergencies at train stations (Shiwakoti).- On a kinetic modeling of crowd dynamics with several interacting groups (Liao).- Coupling pedestrian flow and disease contagion models (Klar).

Nicola Bellomo is distinguished professor at the University of Granada and professor emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Torino. He started his career in 1980 when he was called to cover the chair of mathematical physics and applied mathematics due to his scientific achievements on the mathematical theory of the Boltzmann equation and of stochastic differential equations. Subsequently, he moved his scientific interests to the study of living systems, becoming one of the pioneers of the development of active particles methods to the modeling of large systems of self-propelled interacting entities. He is author of two books published by Birkhaüser devoted to this topic. NB delivered, in 2009, the prestigious Shank Lecture at the Vanderbilt University on the modeling of immune competition. He was awarded the “Third Level of Honor” for scientific merits by the President of the Italian Republic.