Behavioral human crowds

Abstract

This chapter provides an introduction to the contents of Bellomo and Gibelli (Crowd dynamics, volume 1 – theory, models, and safety problems. Modeling and simulation in science, engineering, and technology. Birkhäuser, New York, 2018) and a general critical analysis on crowd modeling. The presentation is organized in three parts: firstly, a general framework and rationale toward the modeling and simulations of human crowds are proposed; subsequently the contents of Chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are summarized by referring to the existing literature; finally, by taking advantage of the contents of the whole book, some speculations are proposed on possible research perspectives. Five key problems are presented, and hints are given to tackle them within a multiscale vision which appears to be the most looking forward idea to be pursued in research projects.