by Manon Gijbels | May 4, 2023 | News
Scientists Claudio Feliciani, Alessandro Corbetta, Milad Haghani and Katsuhiro Nishinari executed an analysis on trends in crowd accidents. This analysis is based on a database of crowd accidents that was developed for the period of 1900-2019 through an investigation...
by Manon Gijbels | Apr 26, 2023 | News
In many Western countries, experts are concerned about the increase in unruly behaviour among eventgoers and crowds at sporting events. While the event industry still has to recover from the enormous impact of COVID-19, crowd behaviour presents new challenges. What...
by Manon Gijbels | Apr 21, 2023 | News
ESI commits itself to sharing knowledge and learning from past incidents. In this spirit, we held a webinar this month analyzing the events that took place at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, on November 9, 2021. The webinar was built around several clips...
by Manon Gijbels | Mar 27, 2023 | News
In recent years, largely due to terrorist attacks, the United Kingdom has had to deal with multiple false alarm incidents, in which crowds fled, with all the consequences to their safety and health. Prof. John Drury and his team* analysed these incidents. They present...
by Manon Gijbels | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog, News
YouTube stars inviting their herd of fans to come visit them is a recognized phenomenon. However, due to fan behaviour linked to social platform TikTok, the phenomenon has become an issue. Many famous artists have fans who will do anything to be upfront at a concert....
by Manon Gijbels | Sep 21, 2022 | Blog, News
There are numerous tools one can use to map out the risks at public events. One of the most used tools is the RAMP analysis: a modelling technique that helps to define the crowd dynamics as crowds approach, circulate, and depart from the site. The acronym RAMP stands...
