MACROSCOPIC FUNDAMENTAL FLOW DIAGRAMS OF A SPIRITUALLY MOTIVATED CROWD

Gayathri Harihara Subramanian (), P.S. Karthika () and Ashish Verma
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Gayathri Harihara Subramanian: Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru 560012, Karnataka, India
P.S. Karthika: Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru 560012, Karnataka, India
Ashish Verma: Transportation Systems Engineering (TSE), Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru 560012, Karnataka, India

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2021, vol. 24, issue 01, 1-16

Abstract: Managing and monitoring large crowds pose a challenge to the crowd management authorities. Understanding the crowd dynamics in terms of its macroscopic parameters and its application to assess the maximum number of people likely to gather at a location or the number of people to be allowed to pass a point can go a long way in preventing situations of crowd risk. This paper presents a comparison of the fundamental diagrams of pedestrian flow at different locations of Kumbh mela and brings out differences in the flow patterns between a general crowd and a spiritually motivated crowd. The effect of spiritual motivation is reflected in terms of higher speeds of pedestrians at some locations and continuous flow despite higher densities. These results fill a significant research gap in the literature by highlighting the unique characteristics of spiritual crowd flows that must be incorporated for simulating a realistic crowd.

Keywords: Fundamental flow diagrams; mass religious gatherings; Kumbh Mela; spiritual motivation; pedestrian flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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