by Manon Gijbels | May 4, 2023 | News
Scientists Claudio Feliciani, Alessandro Corbetta, Milad Haghani and Katsuhiro Nishinari executed an analysis on trends in crowd accidents. This analysis is based on a database of crowd accidents that was developed for the period of 1900-2019 through an investigation...
by Manon Gijbels | Apr 26, 2023 | News
In many Western countries, experts are concerned about the increase in unruly behaviour among eventgoers and crowds at sporting events. While the event industry still has to recover from the enormous impact of COVID-19, crowd behaviour presents new challenges. What...
by Manon Gijbels | Apr 21, 2023 | News
ESI commits itself to sharing knowledge and learning from past incidents. In this spirit, we held a webinar this month analyzing the events that took place at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, Texas, on November 9, 2021. The webinar was built around several clips...
by Manon Gijbels | Mar 27, 2023 | News
In recent years, largely due to terrorist attacks, the United Kingdom has had to deal with multiple false alarm incidents, in which crowds fled, with all the consequences to their safety and health. Prof. John Drury and his team* analysed these incidents. They present...
by Manon Gijbels | Mar 2, 2023 | Blog
20 years ago on 20 February 2003, the Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island went up in flames, killing 100 people and injuring another 230, including one of the club’s owners. This disaster was one of the worst in its kind in modern times, and what makes it...
