Print Email Facebook Twitter An Energy based Method to Measure the Crowd Safety Title An Energy based Method to Measure the Crowd Safety Author Yin, H. Li, D. Zheng, X. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport & Planning Date 2014-10-02 Abstract How to evaluate crowd safety in crowded areas is a tough, but important, problem. According to accident-causing theory, uncontrolled release of hazardous energy among overcrowded pedestrians is the basic cause of crowd disaster. Therefore, crowd energy is modeled in this paper, which takes both pedestrian kinetic energy, pedestrian potential energy and pedestrian internal energy into consideration. Furthermore, the crowd energy is discussed in an empirical study of subway station based on videos. The result shows that the crowd energy can be used to evaluate crowd safety performance. Subject crowd safetyaccident causation theorypedestrian kinetic energypedestrian potential energycrowd pressure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3a671f3f-4bb7-4dd2-89d4-081702658759 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.076 Publisher Elsevier ISSN 2352-1465 Source Transportation Research Procedia, 2, 2014; The Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2014 (PED 2014), 22-24 October 2014, Delft, The Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license Files PDF Li_2014.pdf 1.16 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3a671f3f-4bb7-4dd2-89d4-081702658759/datastream/OBJ/view