Applied Crowd Science

Crowd safety is of paramount importance, and risk analysis is crucial to good planning and management of any large scale event or facility involving the presence or flow of large numbers of people. This practical resource shows how crowd sciences can assist in planning, licensing and safe operation for events and places of public assembly, and gives a variety of case studies and examples from around the world using the core tools of DIM-ICE, RAMP analysis, risk and congestion mapping, and decision support analysis. It suits event planners and managers, public administrators, and urban and transportation designers as well as the police and emergency services. Keith Still and Chris Kemp draw on their extensive experience of event safety planning and management, delivery of training courses to professionals and to MSc level students, and deliver a practical "how to guide" for the application of the crowd sciences.