Pedestrians and Crowds

Letters in Journals

Oliveira, C. L. N., Vieira, A. P., Helbing, D., Andrade Jr, J. S., & Herrmann, H. J. (2016). external page Keep-Left Behavior Induced by Asymmetrically Profiled Walls. Physical Review X, 6(1), 011003.
M. Moussaïd, D. Helbing, and G. Theraulaz (2011) external page How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters. PNAS 108 (17) 6884-6888.
D. Helbing, A. Johansson, J. Mathiesen, M.H. Jensen, and A. Hansen (2006) external page Analytical approach to continuous and intermittent bottleneck flows. Physical Review Letters 97, 168001.
D. Helbing, I. Farkas, and T. Vicsek (2000) external page Simulating dynamical features of escape panic. Nature 407, 487-490.
D. Helbing, I. Farkas, and T. Vicsek (2000) external page Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system. Physical Review Letters 84, 1240-1243.
D. Helbing, J. Keltsch, and P. Molnár (1997) external page Modelling the evolution of human trail systems. Nature 388, 47-50.

Reviews

D. Helbing, A. Johansson (2010) Pedestrian, Crowd and Evacuation Dynamics. Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science 16, 6476-6495.
D. Helbing, I. J. Farkás, P. Molnár, and T. Vicsek (2002) external page Simulation of pedestrian crowds in normal and evacuation situations. Pages 21-58 in: M. Schreckenberg and S. D. Sharma (eds.) external page Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (Springer, Berlin).
D. Helbing, P. Molnár, I. Farkas, and K. Bolay (2001) external page Self-organizing pedestrian movement. Environment and Planning B 28, 361-383.

Articles in Journals

Tachet R., P. Santi, S. Sobolevsky, L. I. Reyes-Castro, E. Frazzoli, D. Helbing, C. Ratti (2016) “external page Revisiting Street Intersections Using Slot-Based Systems”. PLoS ONE 11(3), e0149607.
K. Haase, H. Z. Al Abideen, S. Al-Bosta, M. Kasper, M. Koch, S. Müller, and D. Helbing (2016) external page Improving Pilgrim Safety During the Hajj: An Analytical and Operational Research Approach. Interfaces 46 (1), 74-90.
Gershenson, C., and D. Helbing (2015) “external page When slower is faster.” Complexity, 21(2), 9-15.
Mani, R., L. Böttcher, H. J. Herrmann, and D. Helbing (2014) “external page Extreme power law in a driven many-particle system without threshold dynamics.” Physical Review E, 90(4), 042201.
S. Heliövaara, H. Ehtamo, D. Helbing, T. Korhonen (2013) external page Patient and impatient pedestrians in a spatial game for egress congestion. Physical Review E 87, 012802
D. Helbing and P. Mukerji (2012) external page Crowd disasters as systemic failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster. EPJ Data Science 2012, 1:7
D. Roggen, M. Wirz, G. Tröster, and D. Helbing (2011) external page Recognition of crowd behavior from mobile sensors with pattern analysis and graph clustering methods. Networks and Heterogeneous Media (NHM) 6(3), 521-544.
M. Moussaïd, N. Perozo, S. Garnier, D. Helbing, and G. Theraulaz (2010) external page The walking behaviour of pedestrian social groups and its impact on crowd dynamics. PLoS One 5(4), e10047.
J. R.G. Dyer, A. Johansson, D. Helbing, I. D. Couzin, and J. Krause (2009) external page Leadership, consensus decision making and collective behaviour in humans. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 364(1518), 781-789.
M. Moussaïd, D. Helbing, S. Garnier, A. Johansson, M. Combe, and G. Theraulaz (2009) external page Experimental study of the behavioural mechanisms underlying self-organization in human crowds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276, 2755–2762 [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0405].
A. Johansson, D. Helbing, H. Z. A-Abideen, and S. Al-Bosta (2008) external page From crowd dynamics to crowd safety: A video-based analysis. Advances in Complex Systems 11(4), 497-527.
A. Johansson, D. Helbing, and P. S. Shukla (2007) external page Specification of the social force pedestrian model by evolutionary adjustment to video tracking data. Advances in Complex Systems 10, 271-288.
D. Helbing, A. Johansson, and H. Z. Al-Abideen (2007) external page The dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study. Physical Review E 75, 046109.
R. Jiang, D. Helbing, P. K. Shukla, and Q.-S. Wu (2006) external page Inefficient emergent oscillations in intersecting driven many-particle flows. Physica A 368, 567-574.
D. Helbing, R. Jiang, and M. Treiber (2005) external page Analytical investigation of oscillations in intersecting flows of pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Physical Review E 72, 046130.
D. Helbing, L. Buzna, A. Johansson, and T. Werner (2005) external page Self-organized pedestrian crowd dynamics: Experiments, simulations, and design solutions. Transportation Science 39(1), 1-24.
M. Isobe, D. Helbing, and T. Nagatani (2004) external page Experiment, theory, and simulation of the evacuation of a room without visibility. Physical Review E 69, 066132.
D. Helbing, M. Isobe, T. Nagatani, and K. Takimoto (2003) external page Lattice gas simulation of experimentally studied evacuation dynamics. Physical Review E 67, 067101.
D. Helbing (2001) external page The wonderful world of active many-particle systems. Advances in Solid State Physics 41, 357-369.
D. Helbing and T. Vicsek (1999) external page Optimal self-organization. New Journal of Physics 1, 13.1-13.17.
D. Helbing, F. Schweitzer, J. Keltsch, and P. Molnár (1997) external page Active walker model for the formation of human and animal trail systems. Physical Review E 56, 2527-2539.
D. Helbing and P. Molnár (1995) external page Social force model for pedestrian dynamics. Physical Review E 51, 4282-4286.
D. Helbing (1992) external page A fluid-dynamic model for the movement of pedestrians. Complex Systems 6, 391-415.
D. Helbing (1991) external page A mathematical model for the behavior of pedestrians. Behavioral Science 36, 298-310.

Thesis

D. Helbing (1990) Physikalische Modellierung des dynamischen Verhaltens von Fußgängern (Master thesis, Georg-August University Göttingen).

Invited Contributions to Books

D. Helbing, C. Kühnert, S. Lämmer, A. Johansson, B. Gehlsen, H. Ammoser, and G.B. West (2009) external page Power laws in urban supply networks, social systems, and dense pedestrian crowds. Pages: 433-450 in: D. Lane, S. van der Leeuw, D. Pumain, and G. West (eds.) external page Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change (Springer, Berlin).
D. Helbing (2007) external page Self-organization and optimization of pedestrian and vehicle traffic in urban environments. In: S. Albeverio, D. Andrey, P. Giordano, and A. Vancheri (eds.) external page The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems. An Interdisciplinary Approach. (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, New York).
A. Johansson and D. Helbing (2007) external page Pedestrian flow optimization with a genetic algorithm based in Boolean grids. Pages 237-272 in: N. Waldau, P. Gattermann, H. Knoflacher, and M. Schreckenberg (eds.) Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005 (Springer, Berlin).
A. Johansson and D. Helbing (2006) Crowd dynamics. Pages 449-471 in: B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti, A. Chatterjee (eds.) external page Econophysics and Sociophysics - Trends and Perspectives (Wiley, Weinheim).
T. Werner and D. Helbing (2003) The social force pedestrian model applied to real life scenarios. Pages 17-26 in: E. R. Galea (ed.) external page Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2003 (CMS Press, London).
D. Helbing, I. J. Farkás, and T. Vicsek (2002) Crowd disasters and simulation of panic situations. Pages 334-354 in: A. Bunde, J. Kropp, and H.-J. Schellnhuber (eds.) external page The Science of Disasters. Climate Disruptions, Heart Attacks, and Market Crashes (Springer, Berlin).
D. Helbing (1998) external page Pedestrian dynamics and trail formation. Pages 21-36 in: M. Schreckenberg and D. E. Wolf (eds.) Traffic and Granular Flow '97 (Springer, Singapore).
D. Helbing and P. Molnár (1997) external page Self-organization phenomena in pedestrian crowds. Pages 569-577 in: F. Schweitzer (ed.) Self-Organization of Complex Structures: From Individual to Collective Dynamics (Gordon and Breach, London).
D. Helbing (1992) external page Models for pedestrian behavior. Pages 93-98 in: Natural Structures. Principles, Strategies, and Models in Architecture and Nature, Part II (Sonderforschungsbereich 230, Stuttgart).