Crowd Management

摘要: The articles in this special section focus on crowd management areas that are increasingly experiencing growths populations. In its 2018 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations projects 68 percent world’s population is expected to be living urban spaces by 2050, compared current 54 and 30 1950. main drive for urbanization has been economic, with general seeking better employment opportunities accompanied improved lifestyles. Such increased rates put significant pressure city infrastructure networks challenges existing methods various aspects governance, including traffic management. particular, phenomena such as rush hours events carry risks. Environmental impacts due massive also rise. These other indicators call new mechanisms crowds, especially those exploiting recent advances technology, e.g., Internet Things (IoT) big data.