If you are in charge of a large group of people in a public space, you need to understand the factors that affect crowd safety. We run courses on Crowd Dynamics, Understanding Crowds, Modelling, Monitoring and Managing Crowds and Real-time Decision Support.
"The crowd dynamics courses were invaluable enabling me to illustrate quickly and precisely any issues that arose at the venues we attended and pass on my recommendations to the security team in a manner the was easily understood." Dave Wilkie, Event Safety Officer, U2 360 European Tour
I teach event professionals (police, security, promoters, licensing authorities) to apply the principles of crowd safety and crowd monitoring. The objective is towards developing safe, robust crowd management plans, drawing on over the twenty years of intensive research and extensive experience from around the world. Topics include overcrowding in public space, accidents and incidents, causes and prevention of crowd related disasters and much, much more.
“As a silver/bronze commander in charge of major events in both a large busy city and a football stadium, I feel confident that I can now plan and prepare to ensure a safer ingress, circulation and egress of crowds. Thanks for this course.”- UK Police Commander
The more that people that know about, understand, and can apply the principles and applications of the crowd sciences, the safer we can all build and manage places of public assembly.
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Safety Crowds eLearning Courses
1 Safer Crowds - Maths Course (SC-MC) - £250
1.1 Areas - how to calculate areas from maps, plans and diagrams
1.2 Averages - how to calculate and use averages
1.3 Percentages - how to assess distributions
1.4 Spreadsheets - how to build simple crowd flow models
1.5 Graphs - how to assess the crowd flow from a graph
2 Safer Crowds - Applied Maths Course (SC-AMC) - £250
2.1 Introduction to Crowd Modelling
2.2 Introduction to Network Theory
2.3 Introduction to Ergodic/Spatial Analysis
2.4 Introduction to Queueing Theory
3 Safer Crowds - Crowd Sciences (SC-CS) - £350
3.1 Introduction to crowd modelling, monitoring and management
3.5 Networks and Circulation
3.6 Matrix Analysis
3.7 Queueing, Ingress and Egress
3.8 Site Egress
4 Safer Crowds - Applied Crowd Sciences (SC-ACS) - £500
Note: This course requires each delegate to provide their own case study which we work through with the delegates in detail.
4.1 Ingress (arrival profiles and model split)
4.2 Circulation (facilities management)
4.3 Egress (normal and emergency behaviours)
4.4 Crowd Meta-Modelling (applied DIM-ICE modelling)
4.5 Developing Robust Crowd Management Plans
5 Safer Crowds - Understanding and Modelling Crowds (SC-UMC) - £750
5.1 Design and how it affects crowd behaviour
5.2 Information - media, announcements, tickets, crowd crazing
5.3 Management - process, procedures and crowd behaviour
5.4 Ingress - systems and barrier designs
5.5 Circulation - facilities management, layout and queueing
5.6 Egress - normal and emergency evacuation
5.7 Modes of crowd behaviour - normal and emergency behaviour
5.8 Developing a Crowd Management Plan for Major Events
6 Safer Crowds - Site and Event Modelling (SC-SEM) - £750
6.1 Examples of Master Planning for Major Events
6.2 Analysis of Sites and Areas for Crowd Movements
6.3 Defining an Arrival Profile using Network Analysis
6.4 Using Spatial Analysis for Facilities Planning
6.5 Using Network Analysis for Egress and Infrastructure Planning
7 Safer Crowds - Crowd Behaviour Modelling (SC-CBM) - £750
7.1 Flow Modelling - how to build, use and implement a crowd flow model
7.2 Agent Based models - how to built, use and implement an agent based model (programming skills required)
7.3 Developing a Crowd Management Plan using Crowd Modelling
7.4 Shock Waves and Crowd Reactions
8 Safer Crowds - Real-Time Decision Support (SC-RTDS) - £750
8.1 Fill Monitoring and Fill Prediction
8.3 Developing and using real-time decision support for managing major events