Crowd Limits experiment
Ever found yourself on a festival terrain or walking around in a city during a large-scale event and thought, it’s beginning to get very crowded now and is it still safe? Large events are getting busier and busier and therefore it is becoming more and more important to manage these large crowds to ensure the safety of everybody and to make sure that everybody can move around comfortably. One of the ways in which it can become unsafe in crowds or in which can become uncomfortable for people to move around is when the flow of pedestrians stagnates. Hence, this is something one would want to prevent from happening during large-scale events. However, in order to prevent this one needs to know how and under which circumstances a pedestrian flow stagnates.
To get more insight into this question the department of Transport & Planning of the Delft University of Technology organises two large pedestrian experiments on the 5th and 6th of June 2018 and for these experiments we need no fewer than 400 participants! So, are you interested in helping us increase the safety at future large-scale events, are you curious as to how these kind of large-scale experiments are performed or does it simply seem fun to participate in such a large-scale scientific experiment? Then apply now!
Below you can read all about what the experiment entails and how you can apply.
The experiment
What does participating in this experiment entail? The whole experiment is spread out over two evenings whereby you can decide to apply for both evenings or just the one. On a single evening the experiment will take at most 3.5 hours whereby the schedule is as follows:
- At the start of the evening you’ll be welcomed together with all other participants and you’ll be asked to register yourself. You’ll also receive a t-shirt and a cap which you have to wear during the experiment. This in order to make it easier to automatically extract trajectories based on the camera images which are collected during the experiment by an overhead camera.
- After you have registered you’ll be ask to perform a few small tests on a computer and to fill out a short survey.
- When all participant have registered we will brief you on how the experiments will be performed and what you have to do.
- The experiment is divided into 13 runs whereby we will replicate a specific situation in every one of these runs. Every run will take about 5 minutes and during the run you’ll be asked to walk through the infrastructure following a certain route. After the first 6 runs there will be a 10 minute brake during which you can sit down, go to the bathroom and during which you’ll be offered a drink.
- We will finish the evening with a short debriefing after which everybody will receive their gift card as a token of our appreciation.
Date & Time:
Experiment 1: Tuesday 5 June from 18:30 till 22:00
Experiment 2: Wednesday 6 June from 18:30 till 22:00
(Note: You can apply for both evenings or just the one)
Location:
TU Delft - Building 35, (Cornelis Drebbelweg 5, Delft)
Compensation:
€20,- gift card (Per evening)
Applying
You can apply by completing the digital application form.
Questions
If you have any questions see the F.A.Q. or send us an email at CrowdLimits-CiTG@tudelft.nl
Primary researchers:
- Dr. Dorine Duives
- Martijn Sparnaaij
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Once you have applied to participate in this experiment you can withdraw at any time without having to provide any reason why and without being penalised for withdrawing or being questioned on why you have withdrawn.
If you decide, after applying but before the actual start of the experiment, to withdraw yourself from the experiment it is much appreciated if, for administrative purposes, you inform us by email of this decision.